Research Resources

Note: I am in the process of updating this page.  I'm using the similar page from Old Knoxville Base Ball as my guide.  Then it is cut and paste.  So, there might still be some baseball remnants here.


Online Football Guides:

• Spalding Football Guides at archive.org
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1901
• Spalding's Foot Ball Rules for 1901
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1902
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1904
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1905
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1906
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1907
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1909
• Spalding's Digest of the Foot Ball Rules for 1910
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1911
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1913
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1915
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1918
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1919
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1920
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1921
• Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide for 1922
• The Official NCAA Football Guide for 1950

Online Newspaper Archives:

• Chronicling America
• Knoxville Daily Chronicle (1870-82)
• Knoxville Tri-Weekly Whig and Rebel Ventilator (1864-66)
• Knoxville Weekly Chronicle (1870-75)
• Knoxville Whig and Chronicle (1875)
• New York Historic Newspapers
• California Digital Newspaper Collection
• LA84 Foundation
• Wikipedia List of Online Newspaper Archives (US)
• University of Illinois - Historical Newspapers Online
• Penn Libraries - Historical Newspapers Online
• Online Historical Newspapers
• Online Newspapers in TN (current)
• Google News Archive
• Knoxville Daily Chronicle (1870-73, 1885-86) (mis-titled as Chronicle Daily Knoxville 1885-86)
• Kingsport Post (1963-66, 1969-74, 1976-78)
• Elizabethton Star (2004, 2006-08) 
• The Chattanooga Press (1984-85, 1990-91, 1994-97, 1999, 2001-06)

Membership Has Its Privileges:

• Ancestry.com
• SABR Research Page
• GenealogyBank.com
• Knoxville Gazette (1793-1818)
• Knoxville Register (1816-39)
• Press and Messenger (1873-75)
• Negro World (1887)
• Knoxville Journal (1888-96)
• Knoxville News-Sentinel (1940, 1982)

Other on-line repositories:

• Calvin McClung Digital Collection
• archive.org
• Google Books

Find A Grave:

• Find A Grave
• John's Find A Grave Launch Pad

Collegiate Football Specific Sites:

• Southeastern Conference - football
• College Football @ Sports-Reference.com
• National Football Foundation

Colleges and University football programs in East Tennessee:

• Carson Newman College
• East Tennessee State University
• Maryville College
• Tusculum College
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville

College Yearbooks:

• University of Tennessee (1897-1917, 1919-2009)
• Maryville College
• University of Kentucky
• Kentucky State University
• University of Alabama

2025 UT Media Guide:

• PDF

Professional Football Specific Sites:

• Pro-Football-Reference.com
• Pro Football Hall of Fame
• National Football League

This guide is primarily for my personal quick reference.  It focuses mostly on the east Tennessee area.  It is not complete.  Suggestions are welcome.

updated August 28, 2025