Early Football, 1880-1925
Michigan battles Chicago, Western
Championship, Chicago - Michigan at Marshall Field, Chicago, attendance, 27,000 in
1905. Library of Congress, DLC/PP-1905:42780.21.
Other sports images can be found
by browsing or searching the presentation, "Taking the Long View: Panoramic
Photographs, 1851-1991,"
offer by the Library of Congress.
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Above left, an unidentified football team, circa 1895 to 1910, Library of Congress, LC-D4-32468 DLC . Other sporting images can be found by browsing or search in the "Touring Turn-of -the Century, America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company," presentation. Above right Ron Smith's excellent, Sports and Freedom deals with the 19th century rise of college sport.
The History section of the Walter Camp Foundation web page offers photos and a sketch of the man who did the most to found modern college football and the Past Teams section lists All America teams since 1889.
Hal Lawson and Alan Ingham explore football at the University of Chicago in a 1980 article"CONFLICTING IDEOLOGIES CONCERNING THE UNIVERSITY AND INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS: HARPER AND HUTCHINS AT CHICAGO, 1892-1940 available at the Journal of Sport History online site
This page was last updated
August 21, 2002
E-mail JTJWH@ttacs.ttu.edu