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1898 College Football All-America Team
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The organizations that chose the teams included Colliers Weekly selected by Walter Camp and the Syracuse Herald. The 1898 season marked the first time players from the west were named to the All-American teams, michigan center William Cunningham and Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger were the first two western players to receive the recognition. Prior to 1898, all of the prior All-America football teams had selected from among five Ivy League teams – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn
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Harper's Weekly
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Harpers Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and it carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast, along with his brothers James, John, and Wesley, Fletcher Harper began the publishing company Harper & Brothers in 1825. Following the successful example of the Illustrated London News, Harper started publishing Harpers Magazine in 1850, in 1857, his company began publishing Harpers Weekly in New York City. By 1860 the circulation of the Weekly had reached 200,000, among the recurring features were the political cartoons of Thomas Nast, who was recruited in 1862 and worked with the Weekly for more than 20 years. Nast was a feared caricaturist, and is called the father of American political cartooning. He was the first to use an elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party and he also drew the legendary character of Santa Claus, his version became strongly associated with the figure, who was popularized as part of Christmas customs in the late nineteenth century. Harpers Weekly was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War, so as not to upset its wide readership in the South, Harpers took a moderate editorial position on the issue of slavery. Publications that supported abolition referred to it as Harpers Weakly, the Weekly had supported the Stephen A. Douglas presidential campaign against Abraham Lincoln, but as the American Civil War broke out, it fully supported Lincoln and the Union. The photograph inspired many free blacks in the North to enlist, some of the most important articles and illustrations of the time were Harpers reporting on the war. Besides renderings by Homer and Nast, the magazine also published illustrations by Theodore R. Davis, Henry Mosler, and the brothers Alfred and William Waud. In 1863, George William Curtis, one of the founders of the Republican Party, became the editor of the magazine. His editorials advocated civil service reform, low tariffs, and adherence to the gold standard, after the war, Harpers Weekly more openly supported the Republican Party in its editorial positions, and contributed to the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 and 1872. It supported the Radical Republican position on Reconstruction, in the 1870s, the cartoonist Thomas Nast began an aggressive campaign in the journal against the corrupt New York political leader William Boss Tweed. Nast turned down a $500,000 bribe to end his attack, Tweed was arrested in 1873 and convicted of fraud. Nast and Harpers also played an important part in securing Rutherford B. Hayes 1876 presidential election, later on Hayes remarked that Nast was the most powerful, single-handed aid had. After the election, Nasts role in the magazine diminished considerably, since the late 1860s, Nast and George W. Curtis had frequently differed on political matters and particularly on the role of cartoons in political discourse. Harpers publisher Fletcher Harper strongly supported Nast in his disputes with Curtis, in 1877, Harper died, and his nephews, Joseph W. Harper Jr. and John Henry Harper, assumed control of the magazine
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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
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Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslies Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1852 and published until 1922. It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie, the Illustrated Newspaper was founded in 1852. John Y. Foster was the first editor of the weekly, there were 30 copies of the first edition printed. By 1897, its circulation had grown to an estimated 65,000 copies, after Leslies death in 1880, the magazine was continued by his widow, the womens suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie. The name, by then a well-established trademark, remained also after 1902 and it often took a strongly patriotic stance and frequently featured cover pictures of soldiers and heroic battle stories. It also gave extensive coverage to less martial events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, among the writers publishing their stories in the weekly were Louisa May Alcott, H. Irving Hancock, Helen R. Martin, Eleanor Franklin Egan, and Ellis Parker Butler. Several notable illustrators worked for the publication, including Albert Berghaus and Norman Rockwell, who created covers for the magazine in its latter years, and Fernando Mirando y Casellas. Surviving copies of the magazine at present fetch handsome prices as collectors items and are considered to give a picture of American life during the decades of its publication
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1889 College Football All-America Team
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The 1889 College Football All-America team was the first College Football All-America Team. The team was selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Weeks Sports, the team selected by Whitney in 1889 marked the origin of the All-America teams that have since appeared in every collegiate sport from mens ice hockey to womens gymnastics. All eleven members of the 1889 All-America team played for three teams—Harvard, Princeton or Yale, then known as the Big Three of college football. The first ever All-America team included the football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pudge Heffelfinger, Snake Ames, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Cumnock. Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yales All-American end, Stagg became a football coach at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932. Staggs teams won seven championships and seven Big Ten Conference championships. William Heffelfinger, Yales guard, Pudge Heffelfinger was a native of Minnesota who was considered the greatest lineman of his time, Heffelfinger was paid $500 in 1892 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association, making him the first professional football player. He was the football coach at the University of California, Lehigh University. He later published a booklet called Heffelfingers Football Facts and was one of the charter inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. Ames is credited with being the first player to execute a fake punt, Ames moved west to coach Purdue University from 1891 to 1892. Hector Cowan, Princetons tackle, Hec Cowan helped lead the 1889 Princeton team to a perfect 10–0 record, Pudge Heffelfinger later said of Cowan, He had the strongest shoulders and arms Ive ever been up against and his stubby legs drove like pistons when he carried the ball. Hector could carry a couple of tacklers on his back, yet he was plenty fast in the open and he later served as the coach at the University of Kansas from 1894 to 1896. Edgar Allan Poe, Princetons quarterback, Poe was named after his relative, after Princeton beat Harvard, 41–15, a Harvard man reportedly asked a Princeton alumnus whether Poe was related to the great Edgar Allan Poe. According to the story, the alumnus looked at him in astonishment and replied, Poe graduated Phi Beta Kappa and later served as the Attorney General of the State of Maryland from 1911 to 1915. Arthur Cumnock, Harvards Cumnock was known as a fierce tackler and has been ranked by one author as perhaps the greatest player in that schools long football tradition, Cumnock later went into the cotton mill business and was the treasurer of one of the largest corporations in New England. Roscoe Channing, Princetons halfback Channing later served with Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders in the Spanish American War, for many years, he was the President of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, a copper mining company in Flin Flon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Charles O. Gill, Yales Gill later coached at the University of California in 1894
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1890 College Football All-America Team
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The 1890 College Football All-America team was the second College Football All-America Team. The team was selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Weeks Sports, all eleven members of the 1890 All-America team played for three teams—Harvard, Princeton or Yale, then known as the Big Three of college football. The strength of the 1890 team is demonstrated by the fact that a majority of the players selected were selected as All-Americans in multiple years and they are, Pudge Heffelfinger, John Corbett, Marshall Newell, Frank Hallowell, Jesse Riggs, Bum McClung, and Sheppard Homans. The team included men who went on to success in their careers. McClung went on to become the Treasurer of the United States under U. S. President William Howard Taft, harvards quarterback Dudley Dean enlisted in Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders and was decorated for his role in the Battle of San Juan Hill. The team also included players who met with tragic endings, Newell was killed on Christmas Eve 1897 when a railroad engine accidentally backed up over him. Football in 1890 was a sport, played before the introduction of helmets. Serious injuries and even deaths were common occurrences in the game, harvards All-American center, John Cranston, was the first player to wear equipment to protect his face during an American football game. In order to protect Cranstons weak nose, Harvard captain and 1889 All-American Arthur Cumnock invented a device that he called nose armor, the armor is made of fine rubber and protects both the nose and teeth. In 1952, Grantland Rice paid tribute to Princetons fullback Sheppard Homans as the embodiment of the rough, Rice wrote, Just as Ty Cobb represents the ball game of many years ago, this man represented the football that used to be. Corbett, Harvard Sheppard Homans, Jr. Princeton
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Walter Camp
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Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the Father of American Football. Among a long list of inventions, he created the line of scrimmage. With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost and he attended Yale College, where he played and coached college football. Camps Yale teams of 1888,1891, and 1892 have been recognized as national champions, Camp was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951. Camp wrote articles and books on the gridiron and sports in general, by the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and more than 250 magazine articles. Camp was born in the city of New Britain, Connecticut, Walter Camp was of English descent. He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, entered Yale College in 1875, at Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Linonian Society, and Skull and Bones. He attended Yale Medical School from 1880 to 1883, where his studies were interrupted first by an outbreak of typhoid fever, in 1873, he attended a meeting where representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities created the intercollegiate football association. They created the rule that each team is only allowed 15 plays per drive and he played as a halfback at Yale from 1876 to 1882. Harvard player Nathaniel Curtis took one look at Camp, then only 156 pounds and he worked for the New Haven Clock Company beginning in 1883, working his way up to chairman of the board of directors. On June 30,1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of sociologist William Graham Sumner and they had two children, Walter Camp, Jr. who attended Yale as well and was elected as a member of Scroll and Key in 1912, and Janet Camp Troxell. Camp served as the football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892 before moving to Stanford University. On Christmas 1894, he and Amos Alonzo Staggs Chicago Maroons organized an early intersectional contest, Camp was on the various collegiate football rules committees that developed the American game from his time as a player at Yale until his death. English Rugby rules at the time required a player, when the ball was fairly held. College Football 1880 rules convention that the contested scrimmage be replaced with a line of scrimmage where the team with the ball started with uncontested possession and this change effectively created the evolution of the modern game of American football from its rugby football origins. This is significant as rugby union has no point value award for this action, the NCAA emerged from the national talks, but worked to Yales disadvantage relative to rival Harvard, according to Branch. By the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and his stories also appeared in major daily newspapers throughout the United States. He also selected an annual All-American team, by the age of 33, twelve years after graduating from Yale, Walter Camp had already become known as the Father of Football
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Charles de Saulles
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Charles A. de Saulles was an All-American football player. He played quarterback for Yale University and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team, a native of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, de Saulles attended the Lawrenceville School where he was captain of both the football and baseball teams. DeSaulles was five-feet, eight inches tall and weighed 151 pounds, De Saulles enrolled at Yale University where he played quarterback for the football team in 1897 and 1898 and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team. He was also the captain of Yales baseball team, jim Rodgers, the captain of the 1897 Yale football team, credited de Saulles with Yales victory over Princeton in 1897, I have always claimed that Charlie de Saulles put the Yale 97 team on the map. Charlie de Saulles with his three runs, which averaged not less than 60 yards each, really brought about the victory. In his book Football Days, William Hanford Edwards, who played on the Princeton line in game, wrote of de Saulles. I remember well the great run of fifty-five yards which he made and he was a wonderfully clever dodger and used the stiff arm well. Charles Ives wrote a song about this game titled simply Yale-Princeton Football Game. In 1903, a football columnist wrote that the equal of Charley de Saulles, however, in 1906, the New York Sun reported that de Saulles was affiliated with the Lasharpe football team in Iola, Kansas. De Saulles joined the team in 1905 as both a player and a coach and its members never train, have no practice except signal work, and yet are able to defeat all comers. The eleven is known as the Lasharpe team, is composed of men from the smelting works. James Rodgers, captain of the 97 Yale eleven, and Charles A. De Saulles was born in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and his father was a noted soldier in the American Civil War. His younger brother John de Saulles also became an All-American quarterback at Yale, johnny is a brother of Charlie de Saulles, the great football and baseball player of 1898 and 1899, and his work is true to family traditions. De Saulles plays second base, and he is snappy and accurate, Charles de Saulles was married to Louise M. Birdie Hoch of Marshall, Michigan. In 1922, De Saulles wife obtained a divorce and was awarded custody of their two sons and it was also reported at that time that Charles de Saulles had remarried. In August 1917, John de Saulles was shot and killed by his millionairess Chilean ex-wife, the murder and trial became a daily reported news story, relegating the First World War that was raging in Europe to the inside pages of the newspapers. Charles de Saulles was drawn into the media sensation as he defended his brothers honor, Blanca was unanimously acquitted of the murder charges in December 1917. Several days after the acquittal, Charles gave up the custody challenge, and Little Jack was returned to Blanca
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Dave Fultz
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David Lewis Fultz was an American football and baseball player and coach. In a seven-season career, Fultz posted a.271 batting average with 223 RBI, Fultz played college football and college baseball at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1898. He served as the football coach at the University of Missouri, Lafayette College, Brown. Fultz was also the baseball coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1907. A native of Staunton, Virginia, Fultz graduated in 1898 with a law degree from Brown University, signed by the Phillies the same year, he played for them in part of two seasons and went to Baltimore in the 1899 midseason and played under John McGraw. With McGraw, Fultz developed as a base stealer, and in hit and run. When the American League was created, Fultz joined the Philadelphia Athletics of Connie Mack in 1901, appearing at shortstop and second base, Fultz led his team with 36 stolen bases and hit.292 with 95 runs scored. His most productive came in 1902, when he stole 44 bases, hit a career-high.302. On September 4, he stole second base, third and home, from 1903 to 1905, Fultz played for the New York Highlanders when Clark Griffith managed the team. During the offseason and in his time he attended New York Law School. Fultz averaged 30 stolen bases per season with a high 42 in 1905 and that season, he suffered a late September collision with teammate Kid Elberfeld, breaking his nose and jaw, and retired at 31 age. Fultz also played football in 1900 and 1901 with the Homestead Library & Athletic Club. In 1901 he was named the teams captain, prior to playing for Homestead, Fultz played football for the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club in 1899. Fultz served as the football coach at the University of Missouri, Lafayette College, Brown University. He also coached baseball at the United States Naval Academy, Columbia University, Fultz got his first coaching job in 1898 as the eighth head football coach at the University of Missouri. Missouri finished with a 1–4–1 record under Fultz and he returned to coach the Tigers for one game in 1900, a victory, before handing over the reins to his former Brown teammate, Fred W. Murphy. Ernest Cleveland E. C. White coached Missouri to a 9–2 record in 1899, in 1902, Fultz returned to coaching at Lafayette College and posted a record of 8–3. In six of the victories, the opponents were held scoreless, in 1904 Fultz became the seventh head football coach at the New York University
