1866 Dartmouth University

This rendering is based on visual documentation for uniform style only. An educated guess is made on uniform color and on minor details that may be missing or difficult to determine.

Rendering accuracy:Year: unconfirmed    Team: documented

Visual documentation on this uniform:

Photo A

Photo date attributed 1866. Full view of team photo at left, detail of photo at right. Photo date from Dartmouth College, Rauner Library. Players were photographed wearing a coat and pants that was most likely gray in color. The accent color on the elongated collars and turned-up sleeve cuffs was green. They wore a white shirt under their coat.

Top from left: Edgell, Moran?, Wilson, Greene and Mosher? Front: Ladd, Ketchum, Smith and Thompson. Player IDs from photo. Image scan from Rauner Library, raunerlibrary.blogspot.com.

Written documentation on this uniform:
1866: “[At an] 1866 rowing race involving Dartmouth and a number of other Eastern colleges, Dartmouth was one of a few, if not the only, school without a color to identify it. At a meeting the following September, Dartmouth students gathered and discussed the need for a school color; green was settled on because, as Frederick G. Mather 1867 said, ‘Indeed, it was the only decent color that had not been taken already’.” From Professor E.J. Bartlett, Dartmouth Bi-Monthly, April 1908, as posted to ask.dartmouth.edu.

Team genealogy: Dartmouth University was founded in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1769.