1894 women’s football team photo

 This is an interesting photo I found of a female football team.  This is very early for any female team sport. They were playing some interclass games in 1894.  Probably a New England women’s school such as Wellesley due to popularity of the sport in the area.  Around this time the flying wedge came about and the game was very brutal.  The one woman on the left had her head bandaged most likely what would have been seen after a bloody Harvard vs Yale match.

The next image is a little later comedy sketch I have from an 1800s periodical.  It shows women of the all female college Vassar throwing around the Harvard football team males around like ragdolls.  It reads:

The Coming Game Between Harvard and Vassar

“If the American girl becomes to grow more stalwart and athletic and the American dude sticks to his cigarettes this is what will come to pass.”