Today, the New York Yankees are playing a game in West Point against the Military Academy team. Almost 100 years ago, Army’s baseball team looked like this (from the Library of Congress Flickr Feed). Check it out and then go below the photo for some info on some of the players in this picture.

In this photo, by the way, are some notables:

The the far left (our left) of the second row, crouching, is Frank Milburn, who would later be a general during WWII and Korea.

Two over from Milburn, third from the left, is Omar Bradley, probably the most notable on the team. Bradley was one of the top Allied generals of WWII in Europe, and second only to Eisenhower in the American chain of command there. Later, as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Bradley was elevated to a 5-star General, the last in American history.

In the very front, looking down, could be Robert Neyland, who would serve in France during WWI and an aide for West Point superintendant Douglas MacArthur but would later become a 4-time National Champion football coach at Tennessee.

Although I’m not sure where he is, Paul A. Hodgson- Dwight Eisenhower’s college roommate and a lifelong friend of his- was also on the team. Eisenhower wasn’t, and considered his failure at making the team one of his biggest disappointments in life.