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[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0097]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Matt Mann, Oklahoma's swimming coach, knows more about swimming than any man in the world. His dual meet record during his four and a half years at Norman is 33-1, breezing to the Big Eight championship every year. Previously, his swimming teams at Michigan won 13 national championships in 30 years, and he coached the 1952 Olympic team."
Date: September 8, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0096]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Matt Mann II, one of the all-time great collegiate swimming coaches in the United States, died at Camp Chikopi, north of Toronto, Ontario, Monday night. Death was believed due to a heart attack."
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0109]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Matt Mann, 70-year-old former Michigan coach, has arrived on the University of Oklahoma campus to take over the reins of Oklahoma's swimming team."
Date: February 2, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0108]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "University of Oklahoma swimming coach, popular Matt Mann was the center of attraction when this group of high school girls met at the Oklahoma City Swim Club's annual awards dinner at the All Souls Episopcal Church Sunday. Back row, left to right, are Cathy Anderson and Helen Edwards. Front, from left, are Linda Sollars, Mann, and Georgia Schroeder."
Date: March 20, 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0107]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The University of Oklahoma's swimming coach Matt Mann, left, offers All-American footballer Bo Bolinger a bit of food at Monday night's Jamboree."
Date: January 23, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0099]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Appointment of Matt Mann, famous University of Michigan swimming coach, as coach at the University of Oklahoma was announced Thursday by the OU Board of Regents."
Date: September 8, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0104]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "And the talk turned to football. Standing is Matt Mann, OU swim coach, who is telling Leo Cade, left, and Gene Hemry that the 1956 OU football team was the greatest collegiate outfit of all time."
Date: December 12, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0105]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Few days ago Al Whale gave a lovely luncheon honoring a man who had just finished his first year as a member of the University of Oklahoma coaching staff. The fellow was Matt Mann, who now has returned to his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., after coaching the Sooner swimmers one season. He is 71 years young, and after retiring from the University of Michigan after 30 successful years, found himself coaching at OU."
Date: March 9, 1956
Creator: Crane, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Matt Mann, vital and vigorous at 71, is looking forward to developing swimming teams at Oklahoma that will "make Bud's great football teams look to their laurels."
Date: January 15, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0102]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(As written by Mann) The hero of this story, as far as I'm concerned, is the young fellow who is the athletic director and head football coach at Oklahoma University. Bud Wilkinson is one of the youngest big-time coaches, and I guess I'm one of the oldest. I've coached more years than he has lived, yet I owe him a great deal. He saved my coaching life when he had the courage to call me out of retirement to coach his swimmer… more
Date: January 15, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0103]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "OU Swimming Coach Matt Mann, left, shows a wrist watch which is a stop watch to Bob Gamble, center, WKY-TV newsman, and Al Whale, Oklahoma AAU swimming commissioner, at a luncheon here."
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0416B.0106]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coach of the Year trophy awarded to University of Oklahoma's Matt Mann is admire by Larry Lermo, who captained Sooner swimmers during the past season. Mann was honored during the national meet in Dallas last month."
Date: May 28, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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