Sports and Activities Pictorial -- Page 68

First Uniformed Baseball Team at the Academy (1914): Back row, left to right: Guy S. Garland '17, Wallace S. Blake '16, Willard E. Nudd '15, Coach Charles C. White '00, Carl J. Moulton '15 and Oscar L. Garland '15. Front row from left: Leston W. Holmes, Rupert W. Lindsey '15 O. Raymond Garland '14 (Manager) and George N. Blatchford '14 (Captain). Team members absent from photo: Abbott Brown '15 and George Harold Batchelder. [Photo courtesy of Tuck Museum; gift of Beatrice Mason '14]

Hampton Academy Debating Team, 1926-27: Pictured in back of the Academy building are the following debaters, from the left: Alvin C. Emery '27, Carlisle E. Moody '27, Phyllis M. White '28 (alternate), Allan P. Skoog '27, Enid L. Wyman '27, Mildred F. Collins '27, Fred E. Allen '28 (alternate), Hollis R. Johnson '27 and Philip Palmer (alternate). The Team handled such still-controversial topics as: "Should the movies be censored?" The Academy always had a strong debating team or, later, Speech Club. Rhetoric originally was a principal course of instruction at the Academy in the early and mid-1800s. [Photo courtesy of Tuck Museum, Academy Collection]