Season photos

Name: Season photos
Creator: Wikimedia Commons

Each season article’s lead picture, mostly team photos from 1878 to 1967, plus a few recent seasons’ photos found with Openverse (photo_via names the host); free licenses only (CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA), credited.

779 rows, 1873–⁠2025. Source: Wikimedia Commons (free licenses, credited per file). On the site: Team season pages. Found using Openverse, which does not endorse or certify this site.

779 rows, page 1 of 16. Click a column to sort.

team	season	photo	caption	photo credit	photo license	photo source
Yale	1873	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1874	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1875	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Harvard	1875	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1876	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1877	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Harvard	1877	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1877	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1878	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Harvard	1878	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Brown	1878	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1879	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1879	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1880	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1881	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1882	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1882	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Rutgers	1882	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1883	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Michigan	1883	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Lafayette	1883	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1884	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1884	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1885	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1885	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1886	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Harvard	1886	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1887	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Yale	1888	photo		Yale University	Public domain	source
Penn State	1888	photo		Pennsylvania State University	Public domain	source
Michigan	1889	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1889	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Cornell	1889	photo		Thomas Hewett Waterman	Public domain	source
Penn State	1889	photo		Pennsylvania State University	Public domain	source
Yale	1890	photo	Touchdown, 1890 Yale vs. Princeton game, painting by Frederic Remington	Frederic Remington	Public domain	source
Harvard	1890	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Michigan	1890	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Penn State	1890	photo		Pennsylvania State University	Public domain	source
Michigan	1891	photo		John Jefferson Gibson	Public domain	source
Penn State	1891	photo		Pennsylvania State University	Public domain	source
Yale	1892	photo		Pach Bros, NY	Public domain	source
Indiana	1892	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Michigan	1892	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Princeton	1892	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Cornell	1892	photo		Thomas Hewett Waterman	Public domain	source
Penn State	1892	photo		Pennsylvania State University	Public domain	source
Purdue	1892	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Georgetown	1893	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Indiana	1893	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source
Michigan	1893	photo		Unknown author	Public domain	source

The CSV and JSON hold the rows these filters find, up to 50,000, with the ids that link them to other datasets; the JSON also describes each column.

Columns (8, what each one holds)

Column	Type
`team_id`	whole number	The team’s id; links to its team page
`season`	whole number	The season (the year it began)
`photo`	text	/media/photos/seasons/<team>-<season>.jpg (Commons)
`caption`	text	the infobox caption, when it has one
`photo_credit`	text	No description yet.
`photo_license`	text	No description yet.
`photo_source`	text	the Commons file page (or the Openverse result’s page)
`photo_via`	text	NULL: Wikimedia Commons; else “Flickr, found with Openverse”

How to cite

"Season photos." CollegeFootballDigest, from Wikimedia Commons (free licenses, credited per file). https://collegefootballdigest.com/data/season-photos. Retrieved October 19, 2026.

Name the original source, Wikimedia Commons, and its license (free licenses, credited per file).