Image: BYA Football Champions 1896

Description: [First Brigham Young Academy football team, 1896] One of the innovations President Cluff brought back from his studies at Michigan University was athletic competition, which included both interclass and interschool games, complete with yells and cheers unheard of up to that time in Provo (and which shocked many Church leaders). The first BYA football team in 1896 played the University of Utah (BYA-12, U of U-0), the Elks, the Crescents, the YMCA of Salt Lake City, the Wheel Club of Denver, and Westminster College. BYA won the championship. The team included, back row, left to right: Eugene McArthur, president of the Athletic Association; Heber Larsen, A. D. Miller, Dave Hyde, Alma Carbine, Walter Hasler, manager; middle row: Nephi Otteson, Jesse LeFevre, Orville Larsen, Hans Poulsen, John Peterson, Andrew Peterson; front row: Albert Fillerup, Sam Hinckley, Ben C. Call, and Frank Cox.
Title: BYA Football Champions 1896
Credit: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/BYUPhotos&CISOPTR=150&CISOBOX=1&REC=8
Author: Brigham Young Academy
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