This is a team picture of the Carroll Hall anti-specials football team.  They were a minor hall football team at the University of Notre Dame in the late nineteen century, and compiled (at least) a 10-0 record for 1899 season, along with outscoring their opponents by a total of 175 to 5.
Photographer for the Scholastic
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