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. 


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