Frank A. Kopf football game charts
Collection
Identifier: MS381
The materials in this collection consist of football game charts created by sports writer Frank A. Kopf for The Atlanta Journal. Each chart is for a separate Georgia Tech game, and details every play made during that game. The charts range in date from 1927 to 1934.
(one half-sized document case)
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Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections.
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This collection consists of newspaper clippings of football diagrams created by Frank A. Kopf. Each diagram shows the play-by-play details of football games, mainly those between Georgia Tech and various opponents, although some diagrams of University of Georgia games are also included. Most of the clippings have been glued to what appear to be lab worksheets from Tech High School.
A graduate of the University of Illinois in 1916, Frank A. Kopf served as a teacher and coach at Tech High School in Atlanta from 1920 to 1940. During the same time period, he also wrote columns about sports for The Atlanta Journal. He created detailed diagrams of specific Georgia Tech football games for the paper, which Tech football coach William A. Alexander used to plan strategies for subsequent games.
Kopf went on to join the Army during World War II, returning to Atlanta after the war to serve as an assistant professor of chemistry at Georgia Tech from 1948 to 1950. In 1947, he retired from the Army as a Colonel; two years later he retired from the National Guard of Georgia, where he was a Brigadier General.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
Accession number 1994.0801. Immediate provenance is unknown (removed from vertical files).
(one half-sized document case)
Christine de Catanzaro and Mallory Velten processed these papers in August 2009.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository