DAYTON, Ohio - Hundreds of college football programs dating back to 1891 have been donated to the University of Dayton.
The university said Wednesday the collection was donated by alumnus James "Rocky" Whalen.
The collection includes more than 1,700 football programs and 620 sports books.
It features game programs from Yale-Harvard contests in 1894 and 1897 and programs from 26 Ohio State-Michigan games dating to 1941. The games involve more than 100 schools from across the nation.
The collection also includes the book "Understand Football," published in 1929 by Grantland Rice and John Heisman, the namesake of the Heisman Trophy. Two books by Knute Rockne published in 1931, the year Rockne died, also are in the collection.
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