1891 Photo Of The Princeton Class of 1895 Freshman Football Team

Pach Bros. 1891 albumin of the freshman football team, Princeton class of 1895.

Some players of interest:

At the front of the grouping, lying on the ground is Thomas “Doggie” Gawthrop Trenchard. Trenchard prepared at Lawrenceville (see blog entries July 7, 2013, November 2, 2014 and January 18, 2016). He played on both the freshman baseball and football teams, and played varsity football for three years, captaining the Tigers in 1893 and 1894. He was named an All - American in 1893. After Princeton he went on to play for the Latrobe and Allegheny Athletic Associations.

Sitting behind Trenchard, holding the ball is Darwin “Jesse” Rush James, Jr. James captained the freshman football team and was a substitute for the varsity eleven. He also captained the University track team. He is well known to some of us for being in a photo with Johnny Poe and “Beef” Wheeler, all three  pretty banged up after a snowball fight with members of the class of ’94. Apparently the snowballs were formed around rocks.  A copy of that photo appears below, taken from the twenty-fifth year record of the class of 1895.

Back row, standing to the right is a Arthur “Beef” Ledlie Wheeler, who although a member of the class of ’95 graduated in 1896. He played on the varsity football team for four years, 1891-1894.

In the back row, 3^rd from the left is the mustached Lewis “PoP” Frederick Pease. Pease played for four years on the freshman team as well as the freshman scrub team.  We have never researched someone who belonged to more clubs and teams at college than Pease; he was a member of no less than fourteen.

Trenchard and Wheeler were two of the Princeton players featured on the 1894 Mayo Cut Plug card series.

Photo 10 x 13 1/2. This is the only example of this photo we have come across.