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Photograph of Lecompton High School Football Team 1916, Lecompton, Kansas. Team wearing jerseys with striped sleeves. Three players wearing helmets, a couple of players wearing stocking hats. Posing in a line-up with the coach. Identification is from a duplicate copy of this photo, #02705. In the background is a boy in a coat and hat, identified as the brother of Ella Scott Stanwix, the donor of the photograph and Lecompton High School graduate in 1917. Also in the background is the chapel bell house, which was west of Lane University. The University building was used as the Lecompton High School building after 1902 until 1926. back row of team, left to right: Darrel McCall (number 12), Senior; Shipman "Ship" Winter, Senior, (full back), wife was Fay Young; Allen Hickman, Junior (quarter back); Dick Richards, Senior (left half back); Coach Clarence Smith, (Lecompton Elementary School Principal also), never married; Front Row: Paul Tupper, Senior (right end); Fred Davidson, Freshman (right tackle), never married, died 1920; Herman Banks, Sophomore (right guard), wife Rebecca Miller; Harry McCall (center); Harvey Glenn, Junior (left guard), wife Fay Todhunter; John Banks, Senior (left tackle), wife Esther Lambert; Phil Sehon, Junior (left end), wife Dena Baughman--sister of Ted. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.
Date: 1916
Item Number: 440640
Call Number: Lecompton Historical Society 02721
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440640
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Lecompton Historical Society
Collections - Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board (KSHRAB) - Kansas Digital Access to Historical Records (KDAHR)
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Sports - Football
Date - 1910s - 1916
Education - Secondary - Students
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Type of Material - Photographs
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