On April 10, 1912, the Saint Joseph’s College baseball team defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, then Major League Baseball’s reigning World Champions, during a preseason exhibition game.
The Athletics,...
In the spring 1975 semester, four St. Joe’s students spent a semester in Wheeling, West Virginia, as part of the Appalachian Semester Program.
An undated pale yellow pamphlet found in the St. Joe’s...
Six months shy of his final day on earth, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at St. Joe’s about a gritty, waking reality for Black Americans: economic injustice.
King, who had been...
A 1933 issue of St. Joe’s long-running literary magazine, Crimson and Gray, offers an unexpected glimpse into what life was like for St. Joe’s students at that time.
“Hello Frosh!” a short story...
In 1996, St. Joe’s officially recognized its first women’s Division I soccer team.
The inaugural team is featured on pages 118 to 119 of the 1997 St. Joe’s yearbook with black-and-white photos...
The first team photo of the St. Joe’s ice hockey club, established in 1971, can be found in the 1972 edition of The Greatonian, the university’s yearbook.
The team used the University of Pennsylvania’s...
A 20-minute video is a gold mine of St. Joe’s history — and a trailer for more that never materialized.
Produced in 2013, the video was supposed to be the first in a three-part series, according...
The Hawk Staff began research for “Confronting Racism” in mid-February after we decided to continue the conversation that began in November 2018 about racism on campus.
It started with the idea of...
St. Joe’s archives not reaching fullest potential
Located on the third floor of the Post Learning Commons, the Saint Joseph’s University Archives occupies the least-populated area of the typically...
