Boston Latin School

Sumner Cooper “Sporty”

Boston Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts, listed Sumner Cooper (“Sporty”) among 146 graduates in the class of 1928. The entry gives: headed for Harvard; activities listed: Football; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 43.

Class of 1928

146 in the class of 1928 · 62 more named Cooper

Full name: Sumner Cooper
Known as: Sporty
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: the Theodore Roosevelt School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Sporty Cooper; Cooper, Sumner.

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Clubs & teams 47
Same surname 44
Classmates 145
Same schools 213

In context

Sumner Cooper is number 28 of 146 in the alphabetical list of the Boston Latin School class of 1928 on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 43, in the first third of the stretch from page 36 to page 75 where this site found the book's portraits. “Football” appears in 20 entries from the Boston Latin School class of 1928, Sumner's among them. The yearbook lists 9 people from the Boston Latin School class of 1928 as coming from the Theodore Roosevelt School, including Sumner. 98% of the graduates in the class of 1928 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 97% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Edward Francis Cooley, Albert Crosby, John Rankin James Crowley
Same club	Football: 19 other classmates
Same earlier school	the Theodore Roosevelt School: 8 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 110 of 119 classmates with a plan (92%)

What Sumner did at school

Football 94
1st Lieutenant, 8th Company, 5th Regiment, 1st Prize Company
Captain, 8th Company, 5th Regiment 5

Fellow members from Sumner's own class:

What the yearbook said

Heroic, stoic Cato.

The class of 1928

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Others named Cooper

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Also came from the Theodore Roosevelt School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Boston Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 43. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1928bost_4).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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