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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…

Portrait of the Class of 1895 taken on the steps of Old Snow Hall.

1898 football game with carriages at the sidelines.

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.

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.