H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports

The Stark Center holdings also include the 2500-volume Edmund Hoffman Golf collection, as well as photographs, artifacts and papers donated by professional golfers Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite, both alumni from the University of Texas.

As a doctoral student at the University of Texas, he was encouraged in this effort by his weightlifting coach, Professor Roy J. McLean, who would eventually create the Stark Center's first endowment, which became known in the mid-1980s as the Todd-McLean Physical Culture Collection.

In the mid-1960s, Todd met Ottley Coulter—a former circus strongman who by then had accumulated what many experts believed was the largest collection of materials in this field in the United States.

[6] The Todds joined the faculty at the University of Texas in 1983, bringing with them their collections of books, materials, photographs, and artifacts, and a goal to preserve the history of physical culture.

[7] Initially housed in Anna Hiss Gym, the Stark Center moved to a 27,500-square-foot (2,550 m2) facility on the 5th floor of the new North End Zone structure of Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in 2008.