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Lyle Chapman

- Colgate class of 1913
- Played football at Colgate for at least one year (1910), but never lettered.
- He later became a Special Agent for the US Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Prohibition and was handpicked by Eliot Ness for a special team whose task was to bring down Al Capone. They eventually became known as 'The Untouchables'.
- The following items come from a scrapbook he kept of his Colgate years.
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Lyle Chapman
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1909 Football Smoker Program
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1909 Team Photo
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1910 Football Permission
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1911 Colgate - Trinity Program
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1911 Trinity Game Picture
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1910 Colgate - Syracuse Track Meet Program
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1910 Track Competitor Pass
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Signature
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Signature
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Signature
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His friends 'Cort' and 'Bark' took pictures of each other at same time
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DU Dance Card
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1912 Track Team
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His friends 'Sam and Thurb'. Clarence Thurber (right), 4 year football letterwinner, 1911 captain, current mascot at Univ. of Redlands is named after him
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1911 Football Smoker Program
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1912 Team Photo
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1911 Football Schedule
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1910 Whitnall Field Track Meet Program
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1910 Basketball Scorecard
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Lyle didn't like Chapel
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'13 vs '14 Intramural Football
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Freshman Clear Whitnall Field for Football Game
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His friends 'Cort' and 'Bark' took pictures of each other at same time
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DU Dance Card
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Quadrangle