Benefit Program from March of 1895, picturing the 1894
Hyde Park* Championship team. The benefit was held to raise money for the
Hyde Park Football Team which included William Henry Lewis (lower right corner) (see August 10, 2015
blog posting).
Oversized albumin matching the benefit photo of the 1894 Hyde Park team.
In 1893 Hyde Park applied for and was admitted to the
Suburban Football League (Eastern Massachusetts). At the time the league
consisted of teams from Lynn, Newton and West Roxbury.
In 1894, the team was bolstered by ex-collegians, including
William Henry Lewis, who played for Hyde Park this year. A larger
complement of opposition this year included league and non-league teams and
included the Brockton Athletic Association, Lynn, Newton, Dorchester, the Haverhill Athletic Association, Tufts
College, the Highland Athletic
Association, and MIT (the only loss of the season).
Other games had been scheduled for 1894, however teams
backed out rather than suffering a presumed loss to a powerful Hyde Park. This
included teams from the Manual Training School, Andover and a second round of
matches with Newton and Dorchester. Hyde Park retained the League championship
that it had also won in 1893. For the 1894 season Hyde Park scored 140 points
to the opposition’s 10.
*We have seen reference to Hyde Park as the Hyde Park
Athletic Association in several sources.
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