In the first year of the Asheville School, athletics consisted of nothing more than "natural play."  The newly developed and extensive campus provided hills, meadows, forests, and streams in which to romp, explore, run, swim, canoe, and hike; in other words, allow boys to be boys. 

The fall of 1901 saw the formal organization of several teams and clubs, one of which was the football team.  Football was a favorite sport of colleges and schools across the Mid-West, and was quickly gaining popularity in the South.  The Asheville School, populated by boys from states with well-established college and school football programs, immediately took up the cry.

Assembled from the collections of the Class of 1923 Memorial Archives of Skinner Library, this exhibit recalls the earliest years of Asheville School's long-lived football tradition.