ca. 1934. Eleven football players from the 1934-35 College of Puget Sound squad line up in this circa 1934 photograph. The team included two African American players, Brennen King and Jess Brooks, unusual for the time. Jess Brooks was a 1932 graduate of Lincoln High School, where he was the first African American student to win the coveted Richard Graff award, for high scholastic achievement and athletic prowess. He is in the back row, second to the left. Brennen King is at the far left, front row. (1935 CPS yearbook "Tamanawas") TPL-9556 (Additional identification provided by a reader)
College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Football--Tacoma--1930-1940; Football players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Brooks, Jess; King, Brennen;