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There's a copy of the first North Texas Normal School (1906) yearbook, then called the Cottontail, on ebay.

1906 North Texas Yearbook on ebay

Image 1 - Cottontail, 1906 North Texas State Normal School 1st UNT Annual! Yearbook Denton

The seller displayed the interior pages, and the only listed sport was women's basketball. I selected a unique name from the team, Cosette Faust, for light research just to see whatever happened to some of these people.

Image 10 - Cottontail, 1906 North Texas State Normal School 1st UNT Annual! Yearbook Denton

It seems that Cosette, born in 1889, went on to have an extraordinary and extremely eccentric life, including exotic world travels, and epic battles with city hall.

She, along with her antics, are minor legends in Dallas, and were profiled in a D Magazine feature as one of the "40 Greatest Stories in Dallas History".

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1977/november/the-prisoner-of-highland-park/

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