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Washington State University Football Films

Online films:

Select a Game 1916 Rose Bowl vs. Brown, 14-0 1929 vs. Washington, 20-13 1941 vs. Washington, 13-23 1942 vs. Washington, 0-0 1945 vs. Washington, 0-6 & 7-0 1950 vs. Washington, 21-52 1951 vs. Washington, 27-25 1952 vs. Washington, 27-33 1961 vs. Washington, 17-21 1962 vs. Washington, 21-26 1963 vs. Washington, 0-16 1964 vs. Washington, 0-14 1965 vs. Washington, 9-27 1966 vs. Washington, 7-19 1967 vs. Washington, 9-7 1968 vs. Washington, 24-0 1969 vs. Washington, 25-43 1971 vs. Washington, 20-28 1978 vs. Washington, 8-38

Football Films Collection

The University Archives at WSU Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) hold films covering close to 800 WSU football games dating from the 1916 Rose Bowl to present day. While a small portion of these are copyrighted televised games, the vast majority are silent coaching films, usually black-and-white, frequently cut into a non-consecutive order more useful to coaching staff: all the offensive plays, followed by all the defensive plays, followed by all the special teams plays. As these films were produced by Washington State, MASC is able to reproduce these for public use, in the interest of both preserving them for posterity and sharing them with Cougar fans as well as football aficionados and fans of the other teams shown here. Due to the time and money involved in digitizing these, only a small percentage have been digitized and an even smaller percentage are available online - at the moment these consist of film from the 1916 Rose Bowl and game films from 19 Washington State / University of Washington games (in 1945, two games were played, and both games are included in the 1945 film). For a listing of what films MASC holds, please see our chronological football films listing.

Creating the Films

The majority of these films were created by the WSU/WSC Athletic Department as 16 mm. film, and were eventually given to the University Archives for permanent storage and preservation. Using an Elmo TRV-16G projector and Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software, these 16 mm. films were digitized and saved as mpeg2 files which were then placed in a permanent storage facility in MASC. These mpeg2 files were then in turn encoded as lower-quality flash files using Adobe Media Encoder and uploaded to an online server for public access. Metadata and links were placed into a WSU Libraries-hosted CONTENTdm database and server for eventual keyword level access.

Encoding and storage procedures were developed by University Archivist Mark O'English, Alex Merrill of WSU Libraries' Systems, Jeff Kuure of MASC, and WSU student Shawn Willoughby. Digitization and file conversions were conducted by Alex Merrill, Shawn Willoughby, and University of Idaho grad student Timothy Mace. This page was created by Mark O'English.