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Location: Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. The Army-Navy Game was played at Franklin Field in 1910 - 12 and in 1914.

If 09996 is the cadets, this must be the middies.

He looks 50 years old. Look how big that ball is compared to today's football. No wonder they didn't pass it much. It would be like passing the Goodyear Blimp.

Could this be a "R. C. Hill" from this photo (depicting the 1888 football team of the University of Pennsylvania)? www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/football/180... (If this Hill indeed attended the university in 1888/1889, then the apparent age of the man on this 1913 photo fits. ) Who might be the "Robert C. Hill" who gave his name to the Hill College House - hill.house.upenn.edu/old_website/history.html

Here is the 1913 Penn Quakers roster: Walter Avery Guy Bloom Robert Bolger Donald Carter A. R. Crane William Griffith Edward Harris Robert Hill Albert Journeay W. Harold Kelly Frederick Koons Richard Marshall Thomas Merrell Chester Minds Lawrence Murdoch J. C. Peden Edward Russell Charles Seelbach Frank Tighe Van Horn Wolf Louis Young www.fanbase.com/Pennsylvania-Quakers-Football-1913/roster A 1918 obituary from the Pennsylvania Gazette, notes that Robert Brinton Hill, who had played for Penn in 1911, 1912 and 1913, had enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps, and had died. "ACCORDING to newspaper reports Second Lieutenant Robert Brinton Hill, a graduate of the Towne Scientific School, class of 1914, has been killed by an accident in France. Lieutenant Hill was a member of the British Royal Flying Corps. He enlisted in Canada last August and went over-seas in December. No further details have been received concerning his death. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Everett Hill, of Orange, N. J. During his undergraduate days Lieutenant Hill was. a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was a member of the football squads in 1911, 1012 and 1913, and a member of the gymnastic team in 1912. After his graduation he became manager of the Bureau of Accident Prevention and Insurance for the Portland Cement Association in Chicago. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Council of the National Safety Council." books.google.com/books?id=wbvmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA882&l... It is likely that this picture is Robert B. Hill.

artolog: You're right, it does seem probable this is the same Hill. We will include his full name next time we update the description.

I added his to Wikidata: Robert Brinton Hill (1892-1918) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97141566

This is what the site looks like now: www.visitingdc.com/images/madison-square-garden-address.jpg Pity.

I can see what you mean. It sure is a terrible pity indeed. Why did they destroy such a magnificent work of architecture?

Oh, they thought it was progress, I guess. Cf. the relevant speech in "Mad Men." One good thing about it, though, is that the whole movement of historic landmark preservation was apparently much strengthened by the destruction of Penn Station: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Landmarks_Preservatio...

It was a travesty. I'm 22 years old and a New Yorker. It breaks my heart to see the Penn Station that was.

They didn't think it was progress, even at the time everyone realized what a tragedy it was. However, the station was privately owned, by the Pennsylvania Rail Company, which was bleeding red ink thanks the Robert Moses and the Interstate Highway Act. The destroyed the station to get money, specifically a 25% stake in Madison Square Garden. It was a business decision by a company that was failing and desperate to do anything to try to bring in revenue.