Reader Steve Dixon sent in this shot - Johnstown High School - Freshman Team - 1911-12. His grandfather is Ludwig Conrad Tross on the bottom right. He also played football for the Penn Quakers (U. of Penn.) which played in the 1917 Rose Bowl, losing to the then Oregon Web Feet (now Ducks).
What I really find interesting is that they all seem to be wearing different shoes - they look like boxing shoes to me - in an age before athletic shoes really had their start. One more point - being that they are freshmen - 1915 is the year that they would graduate from JHS.
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