ASU Victory Bell
Date03/1962
MediumSlide, Film
Dimensions2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2018.12.7
DescriptionPhotograph of the ASU Victory Bell. The Victory Bell tradition began in the late 1930s at Arizona State Teachers College, where it hung in the dining hall and would ring for dinner time. It then transitioned to being sounded for athletic victories, ringing before each football game, and sounding the number of points scored by the Sun Devils.
In 1956, Senator Carl Hayden donated a piece of sandstone from the White House and it was installed as a pedestal for the bell on the west patio of the Memorial Union. However, the bell was removed at some point in the 1970s during the remodel of the Memorial Union and disappeared.
Status
Not on view
December, 1972
1930's