Hockey, Al Purpur, UND Grounds Keeper(Cliff "Fido" Purpur's brother).

William Julison and his brothers, Steve and Adam, were active in hockey and softball in Grand Forks for over forty years, both as team members on local and state championship teams in the 1930s and 1940s and as team sponsors in the 1960s. William sponsored the Art Mart softball team in the Commercial League and Adam sponsored the Adam's Place team in the City League. Adam's Place won the state softball championship in 1965. Steve and Adam played hockey for various Grand Forks teams: the Dragons and Junior Dragons, Grand Forks Central, the Cavaliers, and the Flyers. William was manager of the Grand Forks American Legion Post 6 Amerks team in the States Dominion Hockey League, from 1947 to 1950. This series also provides information on most sports played in Grand Forks and to some extent at UND. The material particularly documents the years of the 20s, 30s, and 40s and is arranged alphabetically by sport with emphasis on softball, hockey, and football. The materials include correspondence, team rosters, handbills, newspaper clippings, Julison's sports illustrations and historical booklets, and memorabilia. Sports photographs are extensive and have been separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets. Several scrapbooks have been placed with the oversize material. The softball portion of the series contains Julison's "Greater Grand Forks Softball History Album" which he compiled and published in 1978. It traces the organization of the sport from the early days of "Kittenball" in the 1920s through the organization of leagues and the establishment of a North Dakota Softball Hall of Fame. Both Steve and Adam Julison are members of that Hall of Fame. This section also provides information on Eddie Feigner, the King and His Court, a professional exhibition softball team who appeared numerous times in Grand Forks in the 1960s and 1970s. Julison, a fan and supporter, designed logos and local promotional items for Feigner, worked on an idea for a softball board game, and designed an Eddie Feigner comic book. It was submitted to Dell Publishing Co., but never published. Julison documented the history of local hockey in his "Greater Grand Forks Hockey Album" compiled and published in 1974. Items integral to its compilation are found in the collection, as well as information regarding the inception of the North Dakota Hockey Hall of Fame and Memento Museum at Grand Forks in 1975. Julison was a co-founder of the Hall of Fame along with J.A. (Lottie) Wambach and Cliff (Fido) Purpur and Julison's Art Mart housed the display. Julison compiled and published a booklet entitled "Clifford J. Fido Purpur: North Dakota's Only National Hockey Leaguer". The majority of the football material consists of Julison's illustration work and his "Sportraits". The "Redskins Sports Review" and accompanying documentation was compiled in 1986 for Central High School's centennial celebration. He also illustrated Ben Hokum's "Powerful Golf for Men Past 40" in 1958.