Item A-1015 - Benefit Football Game for Doug Tilden

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Benefit Football Game for Doug Tilden

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  • 1 Nov. 1950 (Creation)

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2 photographs : b&w-drymounted ; 15 x 7.5 cm

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Action shots of the Engineering football team playing the Eagles, a combined team of Commerce, Law and Education, in a benefit game for Doug Tilden, who became ill with polio and had been a University of Saskatchewan Huskie football team member.

Bio/Historical Note: Douglas Iver Tilden was born 7 March 1931 in Ettington, Saskatchewan. He enrolled in Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, playing Huskie football for two years, during which Tilden was stricken with polio in 1950. He earned a BEng in 1953 from the U of S, and later obtained an MEng from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Tilden accepted a job with Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama. He was involved in the race to the moon, working on the Saturn/Apollo Vehicle and the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Tilden was awarded the Astronaut's "Snoopy Award" for his role in the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the Apollo 15 moon mission. Tilden retired from Boeing in 1993, concluding his career by working on the International Space Station ‘Freedom.’ Tilden died on 5 January 2011 in Seattle, Washington.

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