1888 Yale Eating Club photo with Charlie Gill

Eating clubs were popular in the 19th century in Ivy League schools like Princeton and Yale.  They were a combination of eating hall and fraternity.  This photo contains Charles Otis Gill.  Gill was Captain of the Yale football team in 1889 and also on the very first all-American team that year.  He was a member of many great Yale football teams including arguably the best team of the decade the 1888 Yale football squad.  After graduation he briefly coached the University of California in 1894.  He was a minister for most of his life and ended up authoring various books.