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Carter Claiborne's avatar

Here's one from the University of North Carolina's archives; they're mostly consistent, but note the one player at the center of the bottom row. The reverse indicates it's their 1896 team

https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/dig_nccpa/id/36830/rec/442

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Football Archaeology's avatar

Thanks for suggest that image. You must have read the email version of the story since another reader submitted the yearbook version of the same picture and I added as a postscript in the live version of the story.

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handsome/brilliant's avatar

Agree wholeheartedly on your old school branding take. So many teams wear whatever colors are cool that week and have a million different logos. There’s a lot to be said for coming out in the same thing week in and week out. Clemson has a pretty interesting case of color identity crisis, between purple/navy as their secondary color. A few different stories out there on what really happened but the back and forth is interesting.

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Football Archaeology's avatar

Jordan: Those are great. Thanks, and I've added the first two as a postscript to the story.

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