Michigan Technological University bocce club collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MTU-236

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection, approximately 1977-1990, related to the MTU University Bocce Ball Club. The collection includes a bocce set (4 green balls, 1 green/red ball, 3 red balls, and 1 boccino “jack”); as well as one MTU Bocce Club sweatshirt and one t-shirt. Additionally, there is one folder of records pertaining to the club, including: a rulebook for the Northern Midwest Version of the Official Rules and Regulations for Competitive Bocce, bocce pamphlet for the Michigan Tech club, an International Bocce Association, Inc. official score card, photocopy of the IBA, Inc. official rules (second edition from 1985), bocce rules at Michigan Tech, membership certificates and contact sheet, correspondence, newspaper articles, and material associated with bocce during Winter Carnival at Michigan Tech.

Dates

1977-1990

Conditions Governing Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.

Historical Note

The MTU Bocce Ball Club was established on the Michigan Technological University Campus in September 1977 for the purposes of enjoying and promoting the game of bocce. Among its activities were hosting an annual fall bocce tournament/bar outing held in Iron Mountain, participation in the Memorial Union Building activities fair, an indoor bocce tournament at Michigan Tech, and the construction of a third place class B snow statue at Winter Carnival. The Bocce Club also participated during Spring Bash, the Spring Faculty Invitational, and was a sponsor of the Second Annual Dress Up for Pasty Day. The club was also influential in the construction of a bocce court at Michigan Tech. The Bocce Ball Club continued to function at Michigan Tech until the late 1980s before disbanding. In 2018 bocce resurfaced at Michigan Tech with a formal, permanent bocce court established on the west side of Douglass Houghton Hall through a collaborative venture between the Athletics Department, Housing and Residential Life, Inter-Residence Hall Council and Facilities Management.