This series contains a wide range of materials relating to the First Annual Wilson Whitley Golf Tournament. Materials in this series consist of correspondence, press releases, mailing lists, and meeting minutes related to the event. The series contains twenty-four folders dating from 1992-1994 and arranged alphabetically. The tournament was named after Wilson Whitley, the late University of Houston All-American football player. In 1976, Whitley was voted the Best Defensive Lineman in college football. He later played professionally with the Cincinnati Bengals for many seasons. After retirement from the National Football League, Whitley worked as an executive for Holiday Inn Worldwide. At the time of his death, he was working on a celebrity golf tournament to benefit the Scholarship Fund of the African American Studies Program. In its first year, the tournament generated over $40,000 in gross revenues. Some of the celebrity players included, Robert Newhouse, Alois Blackwell, Butch Woolfolf, Curtis Duncan, Ross Browner, Isaac Curtis, Francis Page, Andre Ware, Carl Lewis, and Otis Birdsong.