The Collegiate Collection from Ebbetts Vintage

The Big Three

Yale University 1923 Shawl Collar Sweater

The Yale Football team has won 27 National Championships since they began competing in 1872.  Walter Camp, the “Father of American Football” was a Yale alumnus and coach.  Camp attended Hopkins School and graduated from Yale College in 1880. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Linonian Society, and Skull and Bones.

Princeton University 1924 Shawl Collar Sweater

On November 6th, 1869, the Princeton Tigers (College of New Jersey at the time) were participants in the first ever intercollegiate football game versus Rutgers University (then known as Rutgers College). Princeton football captain Hobey Baker, a graduate of St. Paul’s School and a member of the Ivy Club, was the inspiration for the character Allenby in This Side of Paradise, the first novel from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Harvard University 1940 Shawl Collar Sweater

Young future president John F. Kennedy, a graduate of Choate School, enrolled at Harvard in 1937. He joined the Spee Club and the Freshman football squad. His coach wrote, “the most adept pass catcher was John Kennedy, but his lack of weight was a drawback,” JFK, who graduated in 1940, owned a sweater very much like this one.

 

 

 

4 Comments on "The Collegiate Collection from Ebbetts Vintage"

  1. Your stewardship of ‘Ivy Style’ is A++. Top drawer. Well done and hip-hip hoorays abounding.

  2. Mr. Mulliner | January 7, 2025 at 1:26 pm |

    I wear one of my two Ebbets Field Flannels ballcaps nearly every day. Both are exact replicas of the originals (a Duke baseball cap from the Dick Groat years and a ’47 Durham Bulls cap). Those sweaters look terrific, as do EFF’s varsity jackets. Since the purchase by Lids in ’21, some EFF items are made overseas. If that matters to you, note which items are products of American manufacturing and which aren’t.

  3. Randy Ventgen | January 7, 2025 at 5:29 pm |

    I have a similar green and gold H.S. letterman’s sweater made by Dehan in Portland OR in 1969.

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