Today's Tidbit... The 1909 Everett (MA) High School Football Team

Everett High School in Massachusetts had an interesting team in 1909. The school was a football power, winning state championships in 1896, 1897, and 1899 and feeding football players into top Eastern colleges, so I was glad to acquire the real photo postcard (RPPC) shown below. I was equally excited to find a nearly identical image in a Boston Globe article from that year. Even better, the image caption identifies everyone in the picture. (The newspaper image is missing the second person seen in the top row in the RPPC.)

(‘Everett High Plays Malden At Home First Time In Seven Years,’ Boston Globe, October 30, 1909.)

Much of the fun part of this image comes from the athletic careers of four people included in this picture. One is the team captain.