Best High School Football Team No One Ever Heard About?

[ignazio]

Great author, interesting historian:

Best High School Football Team No One Ever Heard About?

This week we dig into the dusty archives and share some interesting stories about the early days of professional football in the Chicago area. But for

sportshistorynetwork.com

 

[ramblinman]

Great read.

 

[net-se]

very good article.

they must've had some good crowds if the two partners were selling 3600 hot dogs a game.

is the cannon still there?

 

[USD24]

very good article.

they must've had some good crowds if the two partners were selling 3600 hot dogs a game.

is the cannon still there?

The way I read it, he was selling the hot dogs when he was at UofC, not Morgan Park.

“While Harper sat in gridiron togs on the sidelines in the Michigan game of 1905, awaiting a possible call for emergency duty, his partner in the enterprise was disposing of 300 dozen, if you please “hot dog” sandwiches to appreciative customers at ten cents a throw or “two for a quarter,” if they were in a hurry. As the cost of the sandwiches was one and one-fourth cents each, the profits [for Harper] can be estimated.”

Interesting read!