Carleton College and Academy Football Team - 1893 Season

Football "clubs" were popular in the early years of the college, but it was not until 1891 that a team was organized under
official sanction. For many years, students of both the collegeand the academy could play on the team, as is evident in
this picture

Left to right:
Lying down : James Fuller '96.
Row one: Albert Stadum, Harry Donovan '00, Paul Barney '95, Levi Bullis, Bertran Price '97.
Row two: William McCarthy '94, Max Exner '98, James Jenks '95 (with ball), Ernest Toan '99, Frank Forssell '96.
Row three:- Charles Schellbach '95, Knut Forsell '94, Hans Jager '98, Henry Riggs '96, Jacob Johnson '96,
George Larson '00

Players whose names are in italics were Carleton Academy (high school) students during the 1893 football season.

Carleton was once considered a football powerhouse. Between 1905 and 1917, Carleton teams had a record of 66 wins, 17 losses, and 2 ties. In the years 1910-1917 they outscored their opponents 1520 to 79. From 1913-1916, under the leadership of coach C.J. Hunt, Carleton won the Minnesota College Athletic Conference championship and had an undefeated record. In 1914 and 1915 they were not scored against once and during the 1914 season they averaged better than 60 points a game. The climax came in 1916 when they beat Amos Alonzo Stagg and his University of Chicago team. Stagg said of the game, "the team that beat Chicago, no matter what future teams may have, will always be remembered as the first to demonstrate to the football world that Carleton produces teams of the first class, worthy to be placed on par with any team in the country."