Posed indoor image of Orphanettes' basketball team dressed in uniform; two members holding basketballs. Members: Newman, D. (coach), Glemser, H. (mgr), Wakabayashi, R., Chappell, S., Kinnon, Patricia Irene, Johnston, G., Hodgson, P., Baird, P., Kell, W., Houston, J., Smith, L., Cameron, B., Art, S.

Bio/Historical Note: The Saskatoon Ophanettes played recreational basketball in the City League in the 1940s and 1950s.

Posed indoor image of team members in uniform. Players: Pat Lawson (coach); E. Carnegie, E. East, Myrna Needham, D. Thompson, S. Wright, L. Paul (mgr), C. Lambert, Sandra Therrien, G. Whittaker, Grace Jasper, J. Benson.

Posed indoor image of Huskiettes player Marilyn Truscott wearing her volleyball uniform.

Bio/Historical Note: Marilyn Ruth (Truscott) Walter, a graduate of Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BEd 1974; BSPE 1976) in 1971. She led the Huskiettes volleyball team to several firsts, including a Canada West championship and its first appearance at the CIAU championship where Saskatchewan won silver; four successive provincial senior championships and two bronze medal finishes at the Canadian Open. In 1973 Walter was the first Saskatchewan athlete invited to a national volleyball team tryout. She attended a camp to select Canada's team for the 1973 World Student Games in Moscow. Walter was awarded the Bob Stayner Trophy as female athlete of the year in a tournament sport at the U of S in 1975-76. Walter was a teacher with the Saskatoon Public School Division for 36 years. She taught physical education, humanities and social sciences, along with coaching a variety of sports including volleyball, basketball and badminton. Walter died on 10 November 2020 in Saskatoon.

Huskiettes player Sylvia Fedoruk wearing her number 5 basketball sweater.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Sylvia Olga Fedoruk was born in 1927 in Canora, Saskatchewan. She completed high school in Windsor, Ontario, and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan in 1946. She earned her BA in 1949 and her MA in 1951. Dr. Fedoruk was a member of 12 intervarsity championship sports teams. She played on the Huskiette basketball team that won the Cecil Race Trophy five times, competed on the track team that won the Rutherford Trophy two times, was on the volleyball team that captured the Landa Trophy three times and was a member of the golf team that won the Birks Trophy two times. Dr. Fedoruk was co-captain of the basketball team for four years. In addition to her athletic endeavors for which she received a Major Athletic award, Dr. Fedoruk was active in other facets of campus life, including serving as president of the Women's Athletic Board in 1948-49. She was awarded the prestigious Spirit of Youth Trophy in 1949 as the female student-athlete combining leadership, sportsmanship, character, academics and athletics. Dr. Fedoruk went on to a distinguished career in medical physics, specializing in the use of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dr. Fedoruk became the first female Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, serving from 1986-1991. In 1987 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan from 1988-1994. In 2009 Dr. Fedoruk was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2012 the name of the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) was changed to the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation in honor of the pioneering work she did in the treatment of cancer using cobalt-60 radiation therapy in the 1950s. Dr. Fedoruk died in 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85. The city of Saskatoon honoured her by naming Fedoruk Drive, located in the northeast sector of the city, after her. Sylvia Fedoruk Public School, located in the Evergreen neighbourhood, opened in 2017.

Individual photographs of "Ladies Basket Ball" team members in action grouped. Names: I. Macinnis (mgr), Ray Frey (coach), G. Wilson, Catherine Louise Stuart Bergin (Cherry), Florence Roxana Ullainee Kinsman, K. Paterson, W. Treleaven, C. Early, E. Burwash, [Margaret Holmes] Richardson, E. Wheaton, K. Otton, H. Stewart.

Bio/Historical Note: The colours green and white were chosen in 1910 by Reginald Bateman, a native of Ireland and the first English professor at the University of Saskatchewan. The name ‘Huskies’ was included in an article in the 20 September 1932 Star-Phoenix: “The Varsity Stadium yesterday morning saw the advance guard of over twenty gridiron Huskies swing into action.” One of the earliest pictures of players wearing sweaters with ‘Huskies’ on them was the 1932-1933 Greystone yearbook, showing the men’s hockey team in uniforms with the new name. Women's teams were using ‘Huskiettes’ by 1937.

Individual photographs of team members in uniform grouped. Names: Jean Howes, Noreen Wallace, Dorothy Lake, Pat Lawson, Sylvia Fedoruk (co-capt), Charrie Tofsted (Mgr), Lydia Yaremchuk (co-capt), Eleanor Ciuca, Shirley Howes, Camille Garnier, Peggy Wilton.

Bio/Historical Note: The 1948-1949 Huskiettes won four on the floor, defeating the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia in Edmonton to take the Cecil Race Trophy as Western intercollegiate champions, winning the Gardiner Trophy as Saskatoon city league champions and adding the provincial junior and senior women's titles. Exams prevented the team from attending the Western Canadian championship. The Huskiettes were undefeated in the 1948-49 season, Ivan King's third as coach of the team. Pat Lawson was the leading scorer, averaging 13 points per game in 18 games. Lydia Yaremchuk was the leading scorer and MVP in the city league, while Peggy Wilton was named the cleanest player. Sylvia Fedoruk and Lydia Yaremchuk were both in their third season with the Huskiettes, Lawson, Wilton and twin sisters Shirley and Jean Howes in their second, while Eleanore Ciuca, Camille Garnier, Dot Lake and Noreen Wallace were all in their first year.

Individual photographs of team members in uniform grouped. Names: Peggy Wilton, Betty Wilson, Hazel Braithwaite, Doris Woods, Lydia Yaremchuk, Jean Howes, Sylvia Fedoruk, Shirley Howes, Pat Lawson, Charrie Tofsted (mgr), Polly Hay (capt).

Individual photographs of team members in uniform grouped. Names: Sandra Therrien, E. Carnegie, Myrna Needham, D.O. Thompson, Grace Jasper, E. East, G. Whitaker, J. Benson, S. Wright, C. Lambert.

Elevated view of team members in uniform posing indoors with a basketball. Players: M. Ackerman, Grace Jasper, J. Benson, S. Hay, S. Wright, G. Evans, G. Hanson, Myrna Needham, E. Edwards, Gil Strumm (coach), J. Buttery (mgr).

Team photograph of the Conoco Women's Baseball team in Biggar, Saskatchewan. The players are identified as (left to right): Doris Barnett; Della Boyler; Joyce Burton; Vera Korneshanko; Ted Walington; Harold Powell; Irene Trask; Julia Madden; Lil Sheperd; Alma Turnbull; and, Ann Buchanan.

19 women and one girl standing in a group in front of a building
Written on the back in pencil and blue ink: "Mrs. J. James 2 each, Miss Welch 1[crossed out], Miss Modelard 1 each, 2 of each E.L.M.[crossed out], Mrs. Bolton 2 each[crossed out], July 1912 x ... Modelard, Doll Dunbar, ? Mrs Modelard, Mrs. S. Fraser" and "J Shepherd"

Eight boys standing in a group in front of a building, all wearing winter and hockey gear, some holding hockey sticks.
Young boys identified as: (from left to right) W.M. Devine, Harvey Beech, Earl Calvert, Adam Dickson, Allan Gates, Jack Mitchell, Bill Zenick, and Jack Jones.

36 boys, one toddler and one man standing in a group beside a tent

Five women and one man in winter clothes

Eight women, 12 men and two children standing in front of a steam engine and passenger car