Albert Berg papers, 1886-1945 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

By Mary Sego and Elizabeth M. Wilkinson

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Collection Overview

Title: Albert Berg papers, 1886-1945

Primary Creator: Berg, Albert (1864-)

Extent: 2.0 Folders. More info below.

Subjects: Purdue Boilermakers (Football team)

Forms of Material: Articles, Black-and-white photographs

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists of two folders which contain articles by and about Albert Berg. Picture with notation, "Albert Berg, a deaf mute was a football coach at Purdue". Folder 1 contains an article that appeared in the Alumnus 6/3/1939, which features Albert Berg and his time as Purdue's first football coach.

Biographical Note

Albert Berg was born in 1864. He contracted spinal meningitis as a child leaving him deaf. Berg became the first football coach at Purdue in 1887 at the age of twenty-three. It is said he was chosen as coach because he knew about football from his days as a student player at Princeton.

Subject/Index Terms

Purdue Boilermakers (Football team)

Administrative Information

Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

Alternate Extent Statement: 2 folders

Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation: MSF 32, Albert Berg papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Folder:

[Folder 1: Articles and photograph, 1886-1939],
[Folder 2: Articles, 1943-1945],
[All]

Folder 2: Articles, 1943-1945

2 obituaries

2 book reviews for "The Deaf in the Professions, Arts, and Trades", by Albert Berg.

From My Reliquary of Memories, by Albert Berg, former member of the faculty of the Indiana School for the deaf and Father of superintendent Lloyd E. Berg of the Iowa Council Bluffs, Iowa. From The North Dakota Banner, Vol. 52, no. 4, January, 1943.

From My Reliquary of Memories (Conclusion), by Albert Berg, from The North Dakota Banner, Vol. 52, no. 7, April, 1943.