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Harvard Baseball Team, 1905. Harvard beats Yale, when it comes to boyfriends.

Submitted by orangerie-limonaia.

UPDATE: William Clarence Matthews was the single black player on the team and was called “Harvard’s best player.” Unable to fully join the professional leagues, he went to law school and passed the bar, becoming legal counsel to Marcus Garvey in the 1920s.

Read more about Matthews here.

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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 1864-1892.

This grandson of Queen Victoria was second in line to the throne after his father, Edward the Prince of Wales. He was known as "possibly bisexual, probably homosexual,“ and some even speculated that he was Jack the Ripper (he wasn’t). He was famously implicated in a scandal at a male brothel and died of influenza at 28.

Submitted by theweiblingepsyche

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thewriterwiner says:

This is my great-grandfather. He was born in 1876, and he was maybe in his 20s here, so I’d date the photo around early 1900s. He was a performer in Vaudeville (so I’ve been told), and he was born in a small town in New Hampshire. Both his parents were French-Canadians.

Thanks for the sexy strongman!

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The Bowdoin College Tug of War Team, 1891. From top left, John Horne, James Merriman, George Mahoney, Jonathan Cilley.

Note the sweet one-armed leather gear. All the better for tugging?

Submitted by Molly S.

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From uchicagoadmissions, the coolest, most Indiana Jones-loving admissions Tumblr around!

The University of Chicago has an amazing archive of photos ranging back to the 1890s. We present as our daguerreotype boyfriends the University of Chicago Football Team, 1892. Link here contains more information about the players, which include Amos Alonzo Stagg, who contributed to a lot of the game of modern football and (as of 2011) has his name on the Stagg Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Big 10 conference championship in football.

Information about the photo: http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf4-00669.xml

Information about Stagg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg

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Michael T. McGreevey and players of the amateur baseball team that he sponsored, the Nuf Ceds, 1910. Note the mascot of the Nuf Ceds in the center. (Boston Public Library)

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Football team, c. 1895-1910 (Library of Congress via Shorpy)

Submitted by charles116

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The Bowdoin College Tug of War Team, 1891. From top left, John Horne, James Merriman, George Mahoney, Jonathan Cilley.

Note the sweet one-armed leather gear. All the better for tugging?

Submitted by Molly S.

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3:42am, Paul Davis

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Michael T. McGreevey and players of the amateur baseball team that he sponsored, the Nuf Ceds, 1910. Note the mascot of the Nuf Ceds in the center. (Boston Public Library)