a list of distinguished athletes , circa 1936

The Ken Carpenter Collection (1934-1937; 1946; undated) contains 6 linear feet of material that includes athletic event programs related mostly to track-and-field and football; correspondence; magazines; photographs; negatives; certificates; postcards; newspaper articles and clippings; ephemera; and other material mostly related to Ken Carpenter's college athletic career in discus. A majority of the materials in this collection relate to Carpenter's time on the United States track-and-field team prior to and during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany where he won a gold medal.