Ode to Pre-War Football Cardboard

[cfhofer]

Spot on Rev. I wonder who the guy on the left is? I think he is the same guy who was covered up on my 1886 team photo (back row, fifth from the right). You can see that Watkinson's head was glued onto that photo too.

[revmoran]

Here is the photo from The Yale Football Story by Tim Cohane

[cfhofer]

Thanks Rev. Very interesting. Clearly that isn't Watkinson.

[jefferyepayne]

Quite a mystery, guys! I hope you figure it out.

jeff

[revmoran]

George Robert Carter was a lettermen from 1886 who is not listed as being in the 1886 picture. He is listed in the 1887 picture standing next to Corbin - he might be our man. A Major in WW I he was later Governor of Hawaii

[cfhofer]

Rev,

I think Carter is labeled as "Reynolds" in the 1886 photo you posted (from Cohane's book). In my altered photo I think Carter is sitting down in front of Corbin. Both team photos were taken the same day.

[revmoran]

Camp's Yale Her Campus, Classrooms and Athletics also lists an S. B. Morison '90 as a Y man in football in 1886. Yale Football Y Men also identifies a letterman named George Grant Mason - don't know who Monson is in Cohane's photo - neither the Camp book nor the Yale Football Y Men have that name. Maybe our mystery man is Morison or Mason.