This photograph shows Mr. and Mrs. William Ball at a reunion for Springfield College in 1945. Mr and Mrs. Ball are standing in front of a mirror, so you can see a reflection of them in the photograph.
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William Ball was the class of 1891 of the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College. In 1891, W. H. Ball served as one of the editors of The Triangle and is credited as having brought basketball to Montreal. He went on to work at the Y.M.C.A. in Montreal, Canada, served from 1916-1917 as a representative of the YMCA on the Joint Committee on Basketball Rules, and wrote an article titled "The Spirit of the Game" for Spalding's 1917-1918 Official Basket Ball Guide. Mr. Ball was part of Stagg’s eleven, the Springfield College’s 1890 football team. An All-American Yale player, Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) brought football to Springfield College and coached the institution’s first team in 1891. In The Fireside Book of Football, Edwin Pope describes Stagg as “football’s Ben Franklin, Alexander Bell, and Thomas Edison all rolled into one.” William Henry Ball was Stagg’s teammate and classmate.
A pencilled caption on the back reads: "Mr + Mrs Wm H Ball Class 1891 5/14/45".
