Looking closely at the center of this image, we can tell this is another football team. Some of their uniforms match the upside-down triangles from photo 1. Do they play for the same team? The same school? Do you recognize any of the players? Can you tell us the year?
SOLVED!!
This mystery was also solved by Hugh Lehman. He noted that this exact photograph appeared appeared in The Commercial Appeal, December 4, 1955, section 2, page 12.
This is a photo of the YMCA football team. The year is 1904 and the players are: (Left to right) Front row: Bill Alexander, Allen Kelley
Middle row: Bill Turner, John Morgan Fox II (1887-1966), Lee Thomas Ford (1886-1962), Alex Gibson, Earl McQuistan
Back row: (unnamed coach), Allen Carr Sperry (1879-1968), Noble Stebbins Bruce (1886-1960), J. H. LeMay, Gilbert Mauss Schloss (1888-1960) – local sports star, coach of MUS, and president of the Memphis Associated Amateurs (1920), later an investment broker, Robert S. Schrivener (1881-1969), Julian Aymett (1883-1961), Leo Dorster, and Will Chandler