Why? – What’s Here – How To Use – How To Help – Thanks
Total Number of Files Preserved as of Today: 11,309
1890 – 1891 – 1892 – 1893 – 1894 – 1895 – 1896 – 1897 – 1898 – 1899
1900 – 1901 – 1902 – 1903 – 1904 – 1905 – 1906 – 1907 – 1908 – 1909
1910 – 1911 – 1912 – 1913 – 1914 – 1915 – 1916 – 1917 – 1918 – 1919
1920 – 1921 – 1922 – 1923 – 1924 – 1925 – 1926 – 1927 – 1928 – 1929
1930 – 1931 – 1932 – 1933 – 1934 – 1935 – 1936 – 1937 – 1938 – 1939
1940 – 1941 – 1942 – 1943 – 1944 – 1945 – 1946 – 1947 – 1948 – 1949
1950 – 1951 – 1952 – 1953 – 1954 – 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959
1960 – 1961 – 1962 – 1963 – 1964 – 1965 – 1966 – 1967 – 1968 – 1969
1970 – 1971 – 1972 – 1973 – 1974 – 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979
1980 – 1981 – 1982 – 1983 – 1984 – 1985 – 1986 – 1987 – 1988 – 1989
1990 – 1991 – 1992 – 1993 – 1994 – 1995 – 1996 – 1997 – 1998 – 1999
2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009
The Athletic.net Era
Athletic.net started in 2007 and gradually grew more robust in its storage
of Michigan results. Finding results for these years is not a top priority for
this project, but when we come across them, we will add them. We
will also gladly publish PDF results from timing companies!
2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019
2020 – 2021 – 2022 – 2023 – 2024
Why?
Too much of our sport’s history has been lost. It happens every time a school throws out a box of old track/XC files, every time an old coaches dies and their heirs throw their “junk” into a dumpster. Already, most of our pre-Athletic.net results are very difficult or impossible to find. This collection began as our own personal research trove, but the aim is to create a permanent place where old results can be found by anyone who wants to look something up, confirm a school record, or to dig through the history for themselves.
What’s here?
All are PDF files listed by date. Original official results are included as much as possible. Also newspaper clippings of results, both the agate and the articles. Feature articles are sometimes included about key people in the sport’s history. Out-of-state results are included if they involve Michigan athletes. Newsletters are here, if they offer something of worth to historians. We are also gathering end-of-season team booklets (from all years). And so on.
How To Use The Archive:
- Sometimes there are multiple versions of the same results (newspaper clippings, original results sheets, “officially published” results, etc.) If there are multiple versions, that means that they probably offer different information.
- Newspaper results and articles always include initials of the newspaper at the end of the title. A quick key to the most common ones: DN=Detroit News; DFP=Detroit Free Press; GRP=Grand Rapids Press; KG=Kalamazoo Gazette; FJ=Flint Journal; TCRE=Traverse City Record Eagle, etc.
- Newspaper results are listed by the date of the meet, not the date of publication.
- Result of multi-day meets are listed by the final date.
- Feature articles are listed by the date of publication.
- Some items, such as a end-of-year team booklet, a yearbook page about track or a collection of MITCA newsletters, are dated only with the year (ie. 1926 Highland Park yearbook).
- Download all you want! The more people download old results, the better chance our history has to survive for a long time!
- Can’t find what you’re looking for? Check back later. We still have dozens of boxes with thousands of results to scan. Lots more XC results are coming. On a good week, we add several hundred files.
How You Can Help!
- We need people to scan the old results files they have access to! From dual meets to state finals–you can check here to see what we already have.
- If you can’t scan results but have an old box or 10 of results, etc, please contact me (jeffhollobaugh@gmail.com). I can rescue them and eventually get them scanned. It won’t be fast (because job & life) but it will get done.
- This effort costs money both for web storage and the high-speed scanner I just bought, not to mention driving around the state to rescue files from retired coaches’ garages! Your donations are tax-deductible.
Thanks!
Our deep appreciation to the individuals and programs who have contributed their files and also to those who have supported this financially.
There have been many over the years who have helped us build our own results collection, and we honestly can’t begin to remember them all. However, the following individuals and their families have made their complete collections available since the Archive Project started:
- Jim Bilsborrow (Coldwater)
- David Emeott (East Kentwood)
- Tom Eschmann (Southfield)
- Charlie Janke (Jackson, MITCA Indoor, Midwest Meet, Mideast XC)
- Garrett Jurges (Ubly)
- Don Sleeman (Ann Arbor Pioneer)
- Bob Smith (Novi)
- JB Starkey (Sturgis)
- Cliff Summers (Fremont)
- The Westphal Family (Redford Thurston)