As Eastern University Athletics has moved through the years and technology has changed, the department has sought to digitize, retain, and in many cases to rebuild records and archives from the early days of the athletic department.

As the University clebrates its 100th year, Eastern Sports Information has sought to make old records more complete. This process is ongoing and has been interesting and rewarding. Using newspaper, yearbook, and paper records, many sports are nearing completion in terms of game schedules and rosters, but other programs have significant gaps in the record. Most of the sports that are near completion had someone in the program who was either gathered newspaper clippings or was a meticulous organizer of data. 

Alumni can see what we have gathered by clicking dropdown menus on roster and schedule pages to see which years we have found and how complete those lists are. 

In this, we have decided it is time to reach out and ask alumni and friends for help. As we celebrate our Centennial, we would love to build out past seasons on goeasterneagles.com. Those who can help with filling in missing information on rosters or schedules, or who can provide high-quality scans of pictures or documents are encouraged to reach out to Dan Mouw at dmouw@eastern.edu. Many of our old pictures are reproductions of yearbook or newspaper photos and are limited by the quality of the original or the printing of that photo. 

This process is time-consuming but has been rewarding and is useful. We are continuing to tease out information from the sources we can access but are hoping that crowd-sourcing helps us to finish the project more completely.