Before the playoffs, before the Super Bowl, there was the Skidmore Foot Ball Team.
Skidmore New Era, Dec. 17, 1908, p. 3. “Skidmore Foot Ball Team. P. Loucks, Capt. G. Barrett, Mgr. Reading from left to right, back row: Chas. Smock, P. Loucks, Jesse Barrett, Ira Porter, Mark Loucks and Geo. Barrett. Front row; Harry Barrett, Ellis Dawson, C. Early, Roy Hitchcock and Fred Barrett.”