universityofwisconsin

The surname is spelled correctly on the photograph and incorrectly on the header. This man is Alfred Buser, captain of the undefeated 1912 University of Wisconsin football team. You can read more about him in my blog post about this photograph.

Thanks for the information. We'll look into it.

The link in the LOC notes (above) is missing a character, so it doesn't work. Here's the complete link if you want to read more about Buser: nadinegoff.blogspot.com/2008/03/something-else-to-do-lear...

Central Historian: Sorry about the typo in the link within our notes. Now fixed.

The image says 11-5-11 which looks like the date of the image. November 1911 makes sense - it was his final season as a player when he was the team captain. He became a Wisconsin director of athletics after graduating in 1912. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_L._Buser

Arlie Max Mucks (December 10, 1891 – July 1967) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlie_Mucks

H.C White of the New York Athletic Club won the Discus (127' 1/2") at the National Junior Athletic Championship, Weequahic Park, Newark, NY 8 September 1916. Arlie Mucks, competing for the University of Wisconsin, won the same event in the Senior Championship the next day (145' 4 1/2".) Mucks also won the Shot Put (47' 2 1/2")

H. C. White www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107451189

Harry Emerson "Dad" Vail: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vail

They look like they just came off the farm. Such a neat study of faces in the larger version.