Monday, June 10, 2024

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.

Sunday, June 9, 2024

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.


Friday, June 7, 2024

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.  

Sunday, June 2, 2024

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.