Billy Petrolle Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 99
Scope and Contents
Copy of The Ring (May 1927) with article on Petrolle and his picture on the cover, obituary, and photostatic copies of newspaper articles by Ed Kolpack, interviewing Henry Hurley, brother of Petrolle's trainer and manager, Jack Hurley.
Dates
- 1927, 1974, 1983
Creator
- Petrolle, Billy, 1905-1983. (Person)
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection is held by the NDSU Archives.
History
Born at Berwick, Penn., family moved to Dilworth, Minn. Returned to Schenectady, N.Y. in 1909. Moved back to Dilworth, Minn. in 1922, started boxing professionally under the name "The Fargo Express" with trainer and manager, Jack Hurley, in a Fargo, N.D. gym. Retired from boxing in 1934. Owned a foundry business in Duluth, Minn., later, a religious gift store. Wed Antoinette Rich in 1926.
Extent
7 Items (7 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Copy of The Ring (May 1927) with article on Petrolle and his picture on the cover, obituary, and photostatic copies of newspaper articles by Ed Kolpack, interviewing Henry Hurley, brother of Petrolle's trainer and manager, Jack Hurley.
Provenance
Unknown.
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
Creator
- Petrolle, Billy, 1905-1983. (Person)
- Hurley, Henry. (Person)
- Kolpack, Ed, 1924-1993. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Billy Petrolle Collection
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu