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Champion Football Team, 1914

High School juniors and seniors on the winning football team, 1914.

The football team became very successful after Dr. William Monilaw, friend of Alonzo Stagg, came from Drake University in Iowa(1910) to be head of PE and coach of the teams. In this year, the team won the City Championship and the Cook County Suburban League Championship. In 1916. Dr. Monilaw began giving a medal to the senior with highest athletic accomplishment, scholarship, and citizenship.

Location: steps at front of Blaine Hall

Teacher: Dr. William Monilaw 1910-28

Archive: # 52