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Freeport High School Football: 1907

1907

Black and white photograph of the 1907 Freeport High School High School on the steps of the Grove Street School. First row: Roy Leon Smith, L.H. Barnes 2nd row: Chas. Lewis, Robert Miller, Ralph Crandell 3rd row: Preston Roe, Harold Kropp, Jim Stiles, Harold Parsons, Fred Lee, Harry Betzig, Vern Colyer 4th row: Chas. Betzig, Fred Hunt, Mel Kastenhuber, Bud Rose, Frank Pitcher, Jim Mulcahy.

Record

Freeport NA  Richmond Hill NA* (October 5, 1907)

FreeportErasmus HS (Brooklyn) 25 (October 12, 1909)

FreeportFlushing HS 5 (October 19, 1907)

Freeport 25  Hempstead 0 (November 18, 1907)

Freeport 17  Amityville 0 (November 28, 1907)

*Richmond Hill withdrew because it did not have enough players

Sources:

"Freeport News." Nassau County Review. October 18, 1907, 1.  Accessed July 23, 2024. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=nscr19071018-01.1.1.

"Freeport News." Nassau County Review. October 22, 1907, 1. Accessed July 23, 2024. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=nscr19071122-01.1.1.

"Freeport News." Nassau County Review. November 22, 1907, 1. Accessed July 23, 2024. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=nscr19071122-01.1.1.

"Freeport News." Nassau County Review. November 29, 1907. Accessed July 23, 2024. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=nscr19071129-01.1.1.

"School Notes." Nassau County Review. October 11, 1907. Accessed July 23, 2024. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=nscr19071011-01.1.1.

Miscellaneous

"Upon opening the foot-ball season there was much doubt as to the prospects.  However luck came our way and we turned out one of the best teams in the history of the school.  We did not win every game, but our playing was in many ways invincible."

Source:

The Student. January-February 1907.