View Full Version : can you help identify this team photo?
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03-03-2009, 09:26 AM
Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>I'm hoping to find some information about this photo:<br><br>Approximate year.<br>What letters are on the uniform.<br>Names of any recognizable players.<br>What team could this possibly be.<br>Where it might have been taken (A long shot, but maybe somebody knows).<br> <br>Thanks!<br><br><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1236100333.JPG" alt="[linked image]"> <br>
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03-03-2009, 09:29 AM
Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>1870's.
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03-03-2009, 09:38 AM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Now that's a beautiful photo. Any way you could take a loop to the insignia and see if you can tell what the letters are? If I take a loop to the screen it all just disappears.<br><br>It looks like a serious team.
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03-03-2009, 09:55 AM
Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>My first impression is a small "e" in front of a capital letter such as "T" or "J". The insignia letters are not easy to figure out even after zooming in.
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03-03-2009, 09:56 AM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>A good guess is that it's a college team.
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03-03-2009, 10:08 AM
Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>A few of the players seem young and could be college age, but others such as the man on the bottom left appear older than that.<br><br>I like the symmetry and setting of this photo. If you picture an imaginary line down the middle, both sides of the photo look nearly identical. The photographer had a good eye for a nice photo!
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03-03-2009, 10:17 AM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>They look older than college age to me.
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03-03-2009, 10:18 AM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I stick with my guess that it's a college team.
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03-03-2009, 10:25 AM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>David- let's compromise and call it a graduate school team. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height="14" width="14" alt="happy.gif">
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03-03-2009, 10:34 AM
Posted By: <b>bmarlowe</b><p>I think that trying to determine the ages of players from a low res scan like this is pretty problematic.<br><br>The building could be a university building. The uniforms are pre-knickers - so the '70s seems about right.<br><br><br>
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03-03-2009, 11:12 AM
Posted By: <b>Peter Thomas</b><p>The stone in the building makes New York, New England, New Jersey or Pennsylvania likely location and building is pre 1870.
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03-03-2009, 11:41 AM
Posted By: <b>Rhys</b><p>It is from the 1870's and most likely the early to mid 1870's. My guess would be 1874 give or take a year or two.<br><br>It is a College Team. I have yet to see a non-college team to pose in front of a building like this but I have literally seen hundreds and hundreds of images where they have. Colleges back in the 1870's would often consist of older men who would take years to graduate from prep-schools before finally being admitted, or would start later. Colleges would also employ non-students on their athletic teams in the days before formal requirements so dont let the ages of todays college students make you think that is the way it always was. <br><br>Rhys
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03-03-2009, 12:15 PM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Some of the guys in the photo look to be at least mid-twenties so that would explain it.
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03-03-2009, 12:27 PM
Posted By: <b>Jimmy Leiderman</b><p>Looks a lot like a cabinet card I once owned that pictured the Pine Tree Club from the Wesleyan Seminary in Bangor, Maine.<br><br>
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03-03-2009, 12:32 PM
Posted By: <b>bmarlowe</b><p>Woody Wagenhorst, member of U of Penn team in 1891, at age 28<br><br><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1236112266.JPG" alt="[linked image]">