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.

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.