Recent Estate Auction find - Old Trophy Football and Photos

[kjjavic]

I came across this group of memoribilia at a recent estate auction. In the auction, I purchsed 2 Saint Marks football team photos, 1 panoramic photo with six individual mounted photos, 2 individual St. Marks baseball player photos, and a 1907 Spalding Trophy football.
The football has '07 painted on 2 panels of the football on 1 side. The other side has written on it: (difficult to read) St. Marks Military C
October 1, 1907.
The ball is a spalding ball, but I can't make out the model number in the pump area between the laces.

Anyone ever heard of a Saint Marks Military College. I can't guarantee the word after military is college, but it looks like it starts with a C.

Another SM team photo that I missed out on, had a Chestnut Street address for a photographer/gallery label on the back of the frame. This coupled with living in a Philadelphia suburb, I seem to think it is from the Philly area, but I could be wrong.
My recent research hasn't been able to uncover any Saint Marks Military College, but I'll keep trying.

Any ideas?
thanks
KJ

[kjjavic]

Sorry, here are those 2 football pics. I tried to edit the original but I couldn't

[kjjavic]

I did some research and came up with following:
The photos are from St Marks School in Southborough Massachussetts. It is a boarding college prep school, not a military college.
I found an old postcard dated 1905 and addressed to a Alfred A Biddle of St Marks School in one of the box lots I won.
Alfred Biddle is actually a member of the well known wealthy Biddle family of Philadelphia. They are Mayflower descendants.
I misinterpreted what the football had written on it.
I thought it said St Marks Military C.
What it actually says is: St. Marks (score unreadable) Milton 0
Milton Academy was another local school, so this was a trophy ball from one of their games.
Alfred Biddle was the captain of the football team and went on to play for Yale.