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LOC -- Your title misspells his last name. "Gooch," not "Groogh."

And yet, this fellow with the big V on his football uniform (in a portrait taken in Charlottesville, Va.) would seem to be Robert K. Gooch, a football quarterback hero who led the University of Virginia team to shutout seasons in 1914 and 1915. Much later, as a PoliSci professor, he advocated for the abolition of football scholarships, according to this source: books.google.com/books?id=sT7EMa71OD4C&pg=PA119&l... A biographical sketch: "The Robert Kent Gooch Professorship in Government and Foreign Affairs was funded by friends of the chair’s namesake. A Rhodes Scholar, Robert Gooch (College ’14, Graduate Arts & Sciences ’15) joined the faculty in 1924. He retired four decades later, having been chair of the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, director of the Institute of Public Affairs, head of the Honors Program, University marshal, and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. An authority on comparative government and European parliamentary government, Mr. Gooch advised President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. He died in 1982." im.dev.virginia.edu/endowments/professorships/long_name/c... A November, 1914 account of the Virginia/North Carolina Game, in which Gooch played: select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20612F83C5C1373...

Wystan and artolog: Thanks for the name correction. We'll fix the description next time we update.

PIcture from Holsinger's Studio, Charlottesvile, Va. A large archive of Rufus Holsinger's photos is online at theUniversity of Virginia, including this photo (the Bain version is cropped from it), identified as "Mr. Gooch" and dated 10-21-12: search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:1040473/view?x=13...

Greek Revival at its best...

This photo looks a lot like the Monticello building.

The following news item appeared in the December 10, 1919, Charlotte (North Carolina) News: Charlottesville, Va., Dec. 10 – Hewson Michie, right-end of this season's University of Virginia football team, was Tuesday elected captain of the 1920 eleven. Michie, a native of Charlottesville, was gassed while fighting in the Argonne Forest with the 29th Division."