This series contains only one artifact which is a brown leather briefcase that belonged to Wesley Alexander. It has a gold stamp on the outside that says National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) (1:1).

There are three identical charts that document the Belmont Abbey Men’s Basketball statistics for the years 1978-1989 in this series (2:1).

The correspondence series contains both letters and memos that are either to or from Wesley Alexander, as well as other administrators at Elon and athletic conference officials. The correspondences offer information documenting the eligibility, transfer credits/records, grades, extra-curricular activities, recommendations, and scholarships for students both at Elon and various other schools. Additionally, some of the letters pertain to the Elon faculty athletic committee, athletic schedules, awards of the Varsity “E” letter, and athletic conferences. Specifically pertaining to athletic conferences, many memos and letters discuss amendments, constitutions and by-laws, and rules and regulations for each conference.

This series includes financial documents such as budget lists, financial reports, bills, receipts, and financial statements all pertaining to the Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAC).

The legal documents series contains Elon College athletic grant-in-aid agreements for student athletes participating in sports during the early 1980s. Each form contains the name of the student athlete, the sport he/she played, home address, coach’s name, athletic business manager, and the faculty athletic chairman. The agreement also includes the amount of grant-in-aid each athlete received during a specific semester/academic year. On all the forms, Wesley Alexander was the faculty athletic chairman.

This series contains lists that document members of the Elon College faculty athletic committee, student athletes at Elon, athletes who received grant-in-aid assistance, Carolinas Conference athletic tournament participants (both individuals and schools), and recipients of athletic scholarships. While most of these lists pertain directly to Elon College, there are a few lists from other schools included. Many of the materials in this collection are confidential because they include the student’s social security number, SAT score, and GPA.

A variety of types of materials can be found in this series. For example, there was a program at Elon called “I Back a Christian” program (IBAC) which advocated for better athletics at Elon, tutoring for athletes, improvement of press releases and recruiting, and coaching clinics. Included in this series are proposals for the IBAC program at Elon (7:2, 7:4). Also included in this series are amendments to the constitution and by-laws of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAC) (7:2, 7:5).

There are quite a few reports in this series that range from budget reports and rules of the CIAC, to reports from the Math and Political Science Departments at Elon (7:2-7:16, 7:20).

The minutes that are present in this series include meeting minutes of the athletic committee at Elon College, Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, National Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, North State Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, South Atlantic Conference, Southern Atlantic Conference, and the Student Life Policies Committee at Elon. For specific dates relating to each of these sets of minutes, please refer to the Container List below.

The majority of the types of materials included in the printed material series are announcements, applications, certificates, handbooks, schedule of events, transcripts, and evaluations. Many of the items are confidential because individual social security numbers are included, as well as official Elon student/teacher evaluations. Specifically, most of the applications in the series are transfer eligibility statements that students had to submit to the NAIA in order to formally transfer from one institution to another (9:3-9:21). The applications contain a wealth of brief biographical and contact information for each athlete who filled out the form.

Many of the certificates are eligibility certificates and/or certificates of clearance from NAIA. The eligibility certificates either list individual student athletes or a group of student athletes and includes their SAT test scores, high school GPA, rank in graduating class, and much more. The certificate of clearance is a form that is signed and dated by each student athlete and gives permission for certain people on campus to release information about them regarding their eligibility and participation in intercollegiate athletics (9:33-9:81).

There are a few handbooks in this series that range in scope. For example, one of the handbooks documents the policies and procedures of the athletic department at Elon College (9:89). The remaining handbooks are the official handbooks of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) which include by-laws, eligibility forms, district information, and national awards programs (9:90, 9:91).

The schedules of events in this series pertain to various NAIA workshops, as well as athletic events both at Elon College and other schools (9:119-9:137). The remaining materials in this series include student academic transcripts. Many of the students were from Elon College and transferring to other schools, or vice versa. The information on the transcripts is confidential (9:140-9:165).