1902 Army Football with Douglas MacArthur

 Here is a fabulous photo of the 1902 West Point football team with manager Douglas MacArthur.  The team went 6-1-1 that year.  They tied Yale who went on to become national champions.  They beat Navy 22-8 this year.  Notable players include 4 time All American Charles Dudley Daly and Paul Bunker.

1878 Yale Baseball team with Walter Camp

 Here is a great image with the father of football Walter Camp.  I have always liked this studio backdrop and the boater hats.

1892 Massachusetts Agricultural College

 MAC eventually would become UMass.  Here is a beautiful cabinet card of the 1892 MAC football team.

Tufts University c.1893 Football Player Cabinet

 Here is a spectacular imperial cabinet of a player from the 1893 Tufts football team.  This image shows the brutality of the game during this time with his heavily bandaged face.

Frank Hinkey c. 1893 Cabinet Photo

 Here is a beautiful and extremely clear cabinet photo of Yale star Frank Hinkey.  He is one of the best football players of the 19th century and one of only a handful of 4 time All Americans.  He played for Yale from 1891 to 1894 and during that stretch Yale won 3 national championships and only lost one hard fought game in 1893 against Princeton.  It was during this championship game against Princeton in which Hinkey tore his ear tackling James Blake.  Likely concussed and bandaged up he went on the continue playing in this game. You can see the blood stained vest from the game in this photo.

1894 Yale Football Team

 Here is a rare image of the 1894 Yale football team.  With Captain Frank Hinkey at the helm they are considered one of the best teams in history going undefeated and 16-0.  The team was filled with All-Americans and many are pictured in the first football card set the 1894 Mayos.

1900 North Carolina A&M football team

 This is a beautiful image of the 1900 North Carolina A&T formally A&M football team.  It is one of the earliest HBCU football team images I have come into contact with.  This image predates the earliest record of having a team which is 1901.  A truly historic early Southern football team image.

1893 Dartmouth Football team

 The 1893 team went 5-3 and were champions of the Triangular Football League.  Edwin E. Jones was the captain of the squad.  Other notables included George Huff who was on the first University of Illinois football squad and was later the head coach.  

1892 Dartmouth Football Team Photo

 

Another beautiful large cabinet photo, this one of the 1892 squad.  This year they had a 5-2 record led by captain W.A. Allen.

1891 Dartmouth Football Team Photo

 Continuing on the Dartmouth football trend is the 1891 team.  This team went 2-2-1.  Edward K Hall is pictured at the top left.  He later took over for Walter Camp in the college football rules committee and was later inducted into the HOF.  Frank Lakeland was the captain of the team.  This image was decommissioned from the Dartmouth archives and was given as a gift to the university from Edwin E Jones wife in the 1950s.  Jones is pictured to the right of Edward Hall and would be the captain of the 93 team.

1889 Dartmouth Football Team Photo

 

This is probably the best Dartmouth team of the 19th century.  I had touched a little about Clarence Howland the father of Dartmouth football in another post.  William Odlin was the captain of the 86-89 squad pictured in the image with the football.  He was responsible for renewed interest in football at the university.  The 1889 squad went 7-1 with their only loss to Harvard that year.  

1889 Lawrenceville Football team photo

Continuing on with the theme of the major prep schools of the 19th century is Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.  While Exeter was the feeder school for Harvard, and Andover for Yale, many Lawrenceville students would find themselves continuing their studies at Princeton.

Here is a very nice imperial size Pach Brothers photo of the 1889 football team.  The captain of the team was M.C. Lilley who actually went to Yale and the estate my 1891 Yale team photo came from that came from an earlier post.  In the middle is the coach William George who was on the first all American team of 1889 for Princeton.

1898 Phillips Exeter Football Team

McCornack

Hogan

 I always like these amateur photos of football teams in their element.  This appears to be taken after one of their practices.  The head coach Walter McCornack was a two year captain for Dartmouth and has been highlighted in another post. 

 Pictured is a 21 year old James Hogan.  Hogan later became a star player and All- American for Yale.  I find it interesting the scandal that surrounded him.  

He was 25 years old when he first started playing for Yale so he was a man amongst boys.  Yale had a large fund that they set aside for tutoring of their players.  It was found that Hogan was not paying tuition and was living in a lavish dorm room.  Also, along with some other players had a monopoly on selling baseball score cards at games.  if that wasn't enough, he had sole rights to sell American Tobacco Co. cigarettes on campus earning a commission off of each sale.  This sounds eerily similar to today’s college sports landscape and NIL money. 

1891 Phillips Andover football photo calendar

 Here is an interesting image of the 1891 Phillips Andover football team after their victory over Phillips Exeter.  John Greenway is pictured far to the left who went on to Yale stardom.  Also a nice companion piece given to me by a friend of the program to the game.

1891 Westminster School with William Herbert “Pa Corbin

 Westminster school was started in Dobbs Ferry, NY in 1888 by William Lee Cushing a graduate of Yale.  Following his graduation from Yale, William “Pa” Corbin began teaching at Westminster school from 1889-1892.  I found an article in 1889 in which he actually played on the team in his normal star position of center.  The idea of something like this happening today would be crazy to think about a star college football player going to a high school to teach and competing on the football team.

When I originally saw this photo I had to double take.  Pa Corbin was known for his signature mustache, but here he is with a beard.  I was able to find an article talking about how the 1891 team dominated their opponents, but nothing about Corbin’s role on that team.  

William Coleman 1891 Kansas State University gold football pendant

William Coleman served as a player and the first coach for Kansas State University (later renamed University of Kansas) in their first season of 1890.  They played just 3 games this season going 1-2.  The game against Baker College marked the first college football game played in Kansas.  

The 1891 season was considered KSU’s first official season affiliated with the university.  While Yale was dominating the East, Kansas was proving to be the best team in the Midwest.  They played their first game and had victory over the University of Missouri which would later become a longstanding rivalry.  This year they went undefeated going 7-0-1.  This pendant commemorates their perfect season and is engraved to William Coleman on the back.

Coleman would continue to play for Kansas through the 1894 season starting all 5 years at center.  They were known to run the Flying V with Coleman in the middle.  He would lead the blocking for the ball carrier and took on the brunt of the punishment from the defenders.  The formation proved to be very dangerous and was later outlawed in football. 

After football Coleman spent his life in Kansas and was the superintendent for Haskell Indian University.

Pach Bros Cabinet Photo of John “The Orangeman”

 I have already talked about and shown one of my cabinet photos of John the Orangeman in a previous post, but this image was just too great not to share.  It’s earlier than my previous one most likely late 1880s to early 1890s.  What is interesting about this image to me is it is quite different from any other Pach Brothers images I have seen.   It almost has a noir style about it not seen too often during this period.