1874 Yale University

Left: This rendering is based on visual documentation for uniform style only. Color information is unknown and the uniform is rendered in values of gray. Minor details may also be undocumented or difficult to determine and an educated guess is made to complete the rendering.

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Year: documented    Team: documented

Right: This rendering is based on visual documentation for uniform style only. Color information is unknown and the uniform is rendered in values of gray. Minor details may also be undocumented or difficult to determine and an educated guess is made to complete the rendering.

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Year: unconfirmed    Team: documented

Visual documentation on these uniforms:

Photo A

Hand-dated 1874. Date confirmed by player Osborn. Top row, from left: E Osborn (74), G Bentley (70-74), C Avery (73-75), C Maxwell (73-75) and W Bigelow (75-77). Front: F Foster (72-74), E Smith (74, 75), S Scudder (73, 74), A Hotchkiss (73, 74) and A Nevin (71-74). Years with team from Richard Hurd, A History Of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888 (1888). Note: Hurd lists Bentley as playing 5 years on varsity, Bigelow not listed on varsity in 1874. Information supplied by David Arcidiacono. Photo from Yale University Library.

Dated 1874. Detail view of photo A.

Photo B

Dated 1870s. Unconfirmed date of 1874 from Robert Edward Auctions.

Written documentation on these uniforms:
None

Team genealogy:
Yale University was founded in Connecticut in 1701 and has been located in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1716. The Yale baseball team was first organized in 1868. Info from wikipedia.com.