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Handsome Harold Roy "Hal" Ballin, tackle on the 1913 Princeton football team, photographed in the Princeton stadium on November 12, 1913. He lived to be 86: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ballin

Wystan: Thanks for the information on Mr. Ballin. We will add to the record when we update.

What a great name for a football player: Ballin'

"President is just 'Tommy' for a day" --New York Times, June 14, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F7091FF73C5E13... U. S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson had declined special recognition during his visit to Princeton, either as President of the U. S., or as former president of Princeton University -- deciding instead that he simply wanted to march around the campus with fellow members of the Princeton Class of 1879, which was observing its 35th anniversary with a reunion during Princeton's commencement week.

LOC -- your caption to the photo is incorrect. Bain's minions placed the "X" on the negative merely to indicate Wilson's position in the photo -- the "X" is above his head, more or less. Although he was the ex-president of Princeton University, he was not, in 1914, the ex-President of the United States.

But he was the ex-President of Princeton.

This guy MIGHT make the team today, looks athletic, but today's athletes are just so much better than they were 100 years ago, except for Jim Thorpe

W. E. Hammond, Princeton football player, photographed in the Princeton stadium on November 12, 1913.

Wystan: Thanks for the information on Mr. Hammond. We will add to the record.