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1890 Faculty group portrait
Group portrait of the faculty for the 1890 school year.
1891 Football Team - with Alonzo Stagg and James Naismith
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.
1891-92 Catalog of the International YMCA Training School
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…
1893 Football Team
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…
1895 Class Portrait
Portrait of the Class of 1895 taken on the steps of Old Snow Hall.
1898 game, carriages at sidelines.
1898 football game with carriages at the sidelines.
1903 Jayhawker.
Pictured here in the 1903 Jayhawker yearbook is Lela B. Ford and Inez E. Wood. They are among the earliest African Americans to have their photos in a KU yearbook.
1904 Campus Plan
Henry Wright's architectural sketch of the KU campus in 1904. Note the plan for a drive, which was realized in the World War II Memorial Project.
