The following images reflect the range of athletic interests shared by Middlebury students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Photograph of male students wielding baseball bats and tennis rackets and striking athletic poses from the 1880s. Reprinted in Stameshkin, The Town’s College.
Snow-shoeing on campus. Photograph from scrapbook of Ruth Hesselgrave, class of 1916.
Sporting goods advertisement, The Laurea, 1900, p. v.
Illustration of student outing, 1894 Kaleidescope, p. 29.
Bicycle advertisement, 1894 Kaleidescope, p. i.
Boating Association members, 1890 Kaleidescope, p. 60.
Bicycle Club, 1887 Kaleidescope, p. 54.
Advertisement for a “Gymnastic Apparatus,” 1894 Kaleidescope, p. vi.
Photograph of picnicking students, early 1900s. Photograph reprinted in Stameshkin, The Town’s College, p.276.
Photograph of women preparing to cross-country ski on the Middlebury campus, circa 1923. From pamphlet on Middlebury athletics included in Allen D. Bliss scrapbook, Special Collections.
Photograph of hockey player on outdoor rink, circa 1923. From pamphlet on Middlebury athletics included in Allen D. Bliss scrapbook, Special Collections.
Photograph of men, women, and children skating on the Middlebury campus, circa 1923. From pamphlet on Middlebury athletics included in Allen D. Bliss scrapbook, Special Collections.
