First Alabama Football Team, 1892

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Title

First Alabama Football Team, 1892

Subject

University of Alabama
Football
Athletes

Description

UA's first football team in 1892. Members of the team were not identified in the photo, but players on that team were: D.Y. Grayson, F.M. Savage, T.S. Frazier, D.H. (Daniel Holt) Smith, Eli Abbot, H. M. Pratt, R.E. L. Cope, D.C. McSmith, F.T. Bush (manager) G.H. (George Herbert) Kyser, Burr Ferguson, W.B. (William Brockman) Bankhead (later a congressman), W.G. Little (captain), Robert E. Boyles, W.M. Walker and H.G. McCants. The coach was E. B. Beaumont, a Pennsylvania man.

Source

Tuscaloosa News Archive

Date

1892

Contributor

Betty Slowe (Description)

Type

Photograph

Identifier

231

Coverage

Tuscaloosa (AL)

Original Format

Photograph

Physical Dimensions

5 inches by 7 inches