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Ephemera from the commencement including the program for the Grand Concert given by the Full Band of the Fifth U.S. Infantry, a ticket for the Commencement Banquet on June 11, and a ticket for a reserved seat on Class Day June 10, 1873 in the new…

Group portrait of the faculty for the 1890 school year.

Naismith played center on both the 1890 and 1891 Springfield College football teams, also known as the Stubby Christians. Amos Alonzo Stagg, the “Grand Old Man of Football,” started the football program and was the coach and star of the team.

After graduating from the Springfield College in 1891, Naismith becomes a faculty member at college where he remained through the spring of 1895. Not listed here is the required physical training class that the students had to take, for whom, in late…

The 1893 football team with the first African American player Edward Harvey. An all-around athlete, he also played on the 1890 and 1891 baseball team.Edward had two brothers, Frederick Douglas Grant, and Sherman Alan, who were also athletes at the…