Friday, April 5, 2024

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. 


Thursday, April 4, 2024

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.