Ten members of the 1919 football team were members of Phi Kappa Kappa . . .

At least ten members of the 1919 (first football season) Southern Branch football team were members of Phi Kappa Kappa in their freshman or sophomore (or both) years. Here is an image of the page of portraits of men in that organization, from the 1921 The Southern Campus (via the Hathi Trust Digital Library, item digitized by Internet Archive from an example at the University of California). That volume deals with the 1920-1921 academic year, and it was the second Southern Branch yearbook (not in this group of pictures, but listed in the yearbook as a member, Burnett Haralson):

Here are enlargements of the 1919 team members from the above:

ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Wayne Banning, Winfred Bullock, Robert Huff

ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Charles Marston, Raymond McBurney

ABOVE: Eddie Rossell

ABOVE: William Stephens

Listed in the 1920 yearbook as members of Phi Kappa Kappa (viewable on the Hathi Trust site): Raymond Meigs (who unfortunately drowned in mid-1920) and John Binney.

—Tom Sawyer

August 31, 2020

• A few quick facts about UCLA’s first football season . . .
• UCLA’s first football team — 1919 . . .
• For comparison — a team portrait of California’s 1919 football team . . .
• UCLA’s first “Varsity” football team — its first “intercollegiate” team — 1920 . . .
• UCLA’s first yell-leaders? Probably!
• Gee, I wonder whether these men are sophomores, or juniors, or what!
• UCLA’s third football team, 1921 — a return to the “informal’ team photograph . . .
• The 1921-1922 yell-leaders for S.B.U.C. (UCLA) . . .
• SBUC (UCLA) yell-leaders — the first three years (1919-20; 1920-21; and 1921-22) . . .