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1899 WUP Football Team

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1899 WUP Football Team
  • Title
  • 1899 WUP Football Team
  • Date
  • 1899
  • Identifier
  • FTBL64.UA
  • Description
  • Group portrait of the 1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team taken at Recreation Park in Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh's North Side). Pictured in the front row (left to right) are John W. Crooks, William H. Cullers, Fred A. Robinson (captain) and Parke R. Bachman. In the second row (l to r) are Trainer "Jim" [last name unknown], Wesley W. Jones, Chester G. Fisher, Victor King and Emmett C. Bates. In the third row (l to r) are [unknown], William H. Mitchell, William J. Sterrett, Malcolm F. McConnell, James H. Chessrown, John L. Martin and Team Manager Edward A. Grau. In the back row (l to r) are Arthur A. Parks, John A. Boyd, [unknown] and Walter H. Stifel. The team was coached by Thomas G. "Doggie" Trenchard. An article in the January 31, 1917 Pitt Weekly provides additional information about the players. The photograph was first published in the 1899 Pittsburgh Bulletin.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Football teams
    College football players
    College sports
    Western University of Pennsylvania
    Football
    Pitt Panthers (Football team)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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