[AstroJake09]

Hi all,

This is an original photo from the kickoff of the University of Washington's first game of the 1922 season.

In their first game of the season, they faced off against a football team consisting of crew members from the U.S.S. Idaho battleship.

Prior to the 1922 football season, the UW football team was known as the Sun Dodgers and briefly as the Vikings. The name and mascot were changed to the Huskies after a contest in February 1922.

Being that this picture is from the kickoff of the 1922 season it is from the first moment that the UW football team ever took the field as the Huskies, the name in which they are recognized and known by to this day.

The school's football stadium was also only two years old at the time of the picture, having been completed in 1920 and was known as U of W stadium at that time. Thus making this the first photo of the stadium as "Husky Stadium."