Does anyone know the history of this photo?

Question

Did the 1903 team win a championship?

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by g8rbass94.

Answer 1

With no knowledge of this photo; I can plainly state that if this was a team picture from the University of Alabama, they would undoubtedly claim that this team did and the proof was this photo.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by ZZ1059.

Answer 2

Are you kidding me? Alabama won 3 national titles in football in 1903. Football, football recruiting, and football team photos. I'm sure I'm missing a few but those are the ones they list on their season tickets and annual poster for the team.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by grommit.

Answer 3

Don't mock Bama's championships! The Birmingham Rotary Club National Championship is legit!

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by GatorTheo.

Answer 4

Florida Agricultural College. November 22, 1901 FAC played Stetson at the fairgrounds in JAX. The first intercollegiate football game played in the stste of Florida. Can't find anything about the 1903 team. 1906 was the first year as UF. Info from a book titled Go Gators by Arthur Cobb published in 1966.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by 1955Gator.

Answer 5

I saw some different info on the schools names. The ball they are holding says UF. I'm wondering if they were nicknamed champs or champions instead of Gators.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by g8rbass94.

Answer 6

So no one knows what they were champions of or what championship they won?

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by g8rbass94.

Answer 7

Florida Agricultural College (in Lake City) was re-named "University of Florida" in 1903, when it expanded its curriculum. That is whose team is pictured.

UF (FAC) combined with 3 other State schools to form the UF we know, after the Buckman Act of 1905. One of those other schools was the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, which also fielded a team in 1903 and lost to the Lake City team.

Maybe the team pictured was claiming a mythical State Championship, much the way noles do nowadays.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by HomerGator.

Answer 8

Thanks Homer.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by g8rbass94.

Answer 9

For those interested, sadgator researched and found a picture of FSU's team from the same era...



Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by sadgator.

Answer 10

LOL.

Of course, fsu didn't actually (officially) become a girls school untill after the Buckman Act.

The boys school in Tallahassee prior to 1905 was the West Florida Seminary.

Their first football team is pictured below. I'm pretty sure that's Seminole64 sitting out front with the football in his lap.



Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by HomerGator.

Answer 11

1902-1904 Then "Florida State College" in Tallahassee indeed had a team (pictured above).

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by 93nole99.

Answer 12

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by alaskanseminole.

Answer 13

He's got his version of history.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by 93nole99.

Answer 14

They are of course all wearing "F"s to demonstrate that they did indeed get accepted to UF.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by sadgator.

Answer 15

This picture is obviously a fake...Bowden is nowhere to be found...

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by sadgator.

Answer 16

In 1905, all male students of "Florida State College" (formerly West Florida Seminary) in Tallahassee, including the football team, became part of the University of (the State of) Florida, in Gainesville, just as FAC and EFS did. Therefore, FSC is not really part of the history of FSU -- it is part of UF.

In 1905, the Buckman act also combined the female student populations of several State-funded schools to form "Florida Female College" in Tallahassee. In 1909, it became "Florida State College for Women", and in 1947, it became the Florida State College for Women and Effeminate Men (aka Florida State University). There is no real football history for this school, prior to the late 1970's.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by HomerGator.

Answer 17

Those uniforms could use a little tweak. Not any worse than what Nike puts out these days though.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by SnowshoeGator.

Answer 18

Other than FSU once being named "Florida State College for Women and Effeminate Men", what have I posted that is not factual?

Do you use that tactic in your profession -- call somebody a liar, just because you haven't bothered doing the research to learn that they are telling the truth?

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by HomerGator.

Answer 19

You can poke fun all you want, but rest assured, the photo posted by sadgator was from the time period when FSU could use the phase "unconquered" and it actually still meant something...

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by sadgator.

Answer 20

They're all two baggers for sure sad.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by SnowshoeGator.

Answer 21

The one in the rear left is a looker.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by grommit.

Answer 22

Jenn Sturger the first. Sucks for her that Hugh Hefner was still more than 50 years away from starting his magazine.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by HomerGator.

Answer 23

I didn't call you a liar. You don't have a clue what I know or not. I do know enough that you slant things any chance you get when it comes to FSU. Until your last breath you will avoid suggesting anything complimentary of FSU. I know when I read attempts at advocacy, and I read it consistently in your posts. You draw conclusions based on selected information (meaning just the stuff that helps), and do so in the light most favorable to your bias.

That's what having a "version" meant when I wrote it a few days ago. I figure you know you are doing it...or I've mis-judged your intelligence. Hell you even hate on the Seminole Indians.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by 93nole99.

Answer 24

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by Dannygator1989.

Answer 25

Only if we beat Sewanee.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by BamaFan1137.

Answer 26

Most Okies do. And never forget that Homer is first and foremost a Sooner lover.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by goldmom.

Answer 27

I guess it suffices to say that Goldie has also not bothered to do any research on our State University system.

Yes, I was born in Oklahoma, but I have now lived 83% of my life in Florida. I doubt that our Texican Nole friend can say the same.

Originally posted on Gator Sports Forum by HomerGator.