Newton High School

Leslie Bancroft

Leslie Bancroft (American tennis player) is in the 1912 yearbook of Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1912

Before they were famous

Leslie Bancroft American tennis player

She reached the semi-finals of the 1922 U.S. Championships and was a finalist in several competitions. She met Swiss tennis player Charles Aeschlimann at the 1924 Summer Olympics. They married on December 16, 1924.

Born: April 27, 1894, Newton
Died: 1981
Age in this yearbook: about 18
In the yearbook as: Leslie Bancroft, Newton High School, class of 1912

How we know this is the same person: Birth date printed in the book (April 27, 1894.) matches Wikidata exactly, and the name matches Leslie Bancroft. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

91 in the class of 1912 · 11 more named Bancroft

Full name: Leslie Bancroft
Born: April 27, 1894.
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1912

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Same surname 7
Classmates 90

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 91 names from the Newton High School class of 1912, Leslie stands 7th. In the scan, Leslie appears on page 22, right at the start of the run of 91 portraits read for this site (pages 21 to 42). The class of 1912 has 91 names here, where the neighbouring class has 108 for 1913.

On the same scan page	Gertrude Roberts Anderson, Dorothy Mae Atkinson

What Leslie did at school

Class Basketball, 1908-09

The class of 1912

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Others named Bancroft

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1912, page 22. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1912newt).

Published 1912, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Newton Free Library via the Internet Archive.

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