This photograph depicts the Barrows School soccer team. There are 12 kids sitting for the picture, accompanied by two unknown adults. The kids on the lower row are holding championship banners.
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The Barrow’s school team was the PSAL Junior Soccer Champions from 1909 to 1911. The Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) for New York City was created in early 1903 by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick as part of his job as director of physical training for the New York public school system, seeing a need for reform Dr. Gulick devised a plan to form a new league—the PSAL—that would involve most of the student population, grade school and high school. In the school year of 1906-07 soccer was added. The PSAL soccer championship would be one of the oldest continuous soccer leagues in America but for a short gap in the 1980's. Similar photographs of the team can be found on the 1909 and 1911 Massasoit as part of the normal work activities the students engaged in, this is why it is believed that the Barrows school team was managed by an unknown Springfield College student (then known as the International YMCA Training School). “One of the greatest education advantages the Training School affords is the privilege of normal work, which is nearly as important as the academic work itself. Nearly every student has been engaged in some form of normal work, having had regular duties throughout the city of Springfield. To each of us should come the thought, is Springfield a better city for our having lived and worked in it?” (The Massasoit, 1911).
A penned caption in the back reads "Soccer 1911".
