Henry Thomason was the Valedictorian of his P.M.A. class of 1879. He was trained as a doctor and served in the US Military. In 1898, he enlisted in the Spanish American War as Major and Surgeon in the Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He served as an...
PMA Football Team from the 1880s . Theodore Hyatt believes that young men attend PMA to obtain an education, not to play ball. However, in 1879, he approves the start of a football team but restricts it to on-campus games. In 1888, the team is...