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Mar 19, 2023
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This image is not directly related to the story but is a good-looking illustration from Oberlin’s 1909 yearbook.

Ordinarily, images of the crowds at football games are interesting because they indicate who attended games and the fashions they wore. The two RPPCs we'll review today are from the 1909 Oberlin-Heidelberg game and show us several other aspects of football crowds from the first decade of the twentieth century.

The image below shows Oberlin at home during the 1908 season, playing an unknown opponent. This image is not remarkable, but it shows that Oberlin football attracted good crowds during that period. They also played good football, as demonstrated by their 1909 record when they dominated most small-college opponents while tying Cornell and Ohio State.

(1909 Oberlin yearbook)

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