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College Football All-America Team
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The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. Camp took over the responsibility for picking the All-America team and was recognized as the selector in the early years of the 20th century. com. As of 2009, the National Collegiate Athletic Association recognizes the All-America teams selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News, if three of these organizations select a player to their first team, he automatically receives the consensus honor. If a player is named an All-American by all five organizations, depending upon the distribution of first team honors at any given position, it is possible to be consensus with fewer than three first-team selections. The University of Notre Dame has produced the most unanimous All Americans of any program, there have been 2,868 players from 156 colleges and universities since 1889 who were selected to at least one All-American first team. It has selected an All-America team since 1925, the American Football Coaches Association has selected an All-America team every year since 1945. It is often referred to as the Coaches All-America Team, the Coaches’ All-America Team has been sponsored by various entities throughout the years but it is now under its own banner, the AFCA. These are the sponsors/publishers of the team throughout the years and it is sometimes referred to as the Writers All-America Team. The FWAA has selected an All-America team with the help of its members, the All-America team is selected by a committee of writers representing all conferences and regions of the NCAA. The Writers Team has been highlighted in various media forums, from 1946-70, Look published the FWAA team and brought players and selected writers to New York City for a celebration. During that 25-year period, the FWAA team was introduced on television shows by Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Perry Como. After Look folded, the FWAA started an association with NCAA Films. The team was part of ABC Televisions 1981 College Football Series, from 1983-90, the team was either on ABC or ESPN, and since 1991 has returned to the national spotlight on ABC. The corporate sponsor for the Writers team is AT&T, after years of Cingular being the sponsor. Walter Camp, The Father of American Football, first selected an All-America team in 1889, the WCF claims an 80% participation rate in the voting for its All-America team. Sporting News, formerly known as The Sporting News and known colloquially as TSN, have teams college football editors and staff select teams, from that year through the 1962 season TSNs All-America team was picked by a poll of sportswriters. Beginning in 1964 the team was selected by professional scouts and observers, the Sporting News cited the advent of two-platoon football as the need to go to that system. United Press International is a organization that selected players in a national poll of sportswriters
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1900 College Football All-America Team
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Camps 1900 All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, and Whitneys selections were published in Outing magazine. In its official listing of Consensus All-America Selections, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as consensus All-Americans, using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 15 players as consensus All-American for the 1900 football season. Gordon Brown, a guard for Yale who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, dave Campbell, an end for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958. Chadwick, a halfback for Yale who later had a career as a teacher of English, history. Charles Dudley Daly, a quarterback for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, Daly later served eight years as the head football coach for Army, compiling a record of 58–13–3. William Fincke, a quarterback for Yale who later became a pacifist minister and educator and founded the Manumit School on his farm in Pawling. Perry Hale, a fullback for Yale who later became the football coach at Ohio State University. T. Truxtun Hare, a guard for Penn who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, in 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934. Its selection for 1900 was Truxtun Hare, a player who selected as a first-team All-American four consecutive years, Sports Illustrated noted, Few early 20th Century players were as revered as Hare, who played every minute of every game. Bill Morley, a halfback for Columbia who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971 and he became a prominent cattle and sheep rancher in New Mexico. The All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East, in 1900, all 15 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, and 13 of 15 played in the Ivy League. The Yale Bulldogs had seven players who were designated as consensus All-Americans, the only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were Walter Smith of Army and Walter E. Bachman of Lafayette College. No players from western schools received first-team or second-team All-American honors in 1900, two western players were selected by Camp for his third team, Page, a fullback for Minnesota, and Clyde Williams, a quarterback for Iowa. In addition to Camp and Whitney, other writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1900. The list below includes the All-America selections made by Charles Sargent for Leslies Weekly, only four players were unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, Sargent, and Orton. They were James Bloomer, Gordon Brown, Truxton Hare, GO = George W. Orton in The Philadelphia Inquirer CS = Charles Sargent in Leslies Weekly IN = The Inlander. Nine prominent coaches, from both the East and West, were asked by The Inlander to cast votes. The nine coaches were Dibble of Harvard, Woodruff of Penn, Pell of Princeton, Warner of Carlisle, Newton of Lafayette, King of Wisconsin, Robinson of Brown, Eckstorm of O. S. U. and Horne of Indiana
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1901 College Football All-America Team
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Camps 1901 All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, and Whitneys selections were published in Outing magazine. In its official listing of Consensus All-America Selections, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as consensus All-Americans, using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 18 players as consensus All-American for the 1901 football season. John J. Pershing during World War I, inspector general of the New York National Guard, and as a member of the Harbord Commission, Paul Bunker, a tackle for Army whose posthumously published account of his time as a Japanese prisoner of war became a best-seller. A portion of the U. S. flag flown at Corregidor was saved from burning by Bunker and kept hidden as a patch inside his shirt, Dave Campbell, an end for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958. Charles Dudley Daly, a quarterback for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, in 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934. Its selection for 1901 was Daly of Army, a player who put on a one-man show against Navy, bill Morley, a halfback for Columbia who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He became a prominent cattle and sheep rancher in New Mexico, Neil Snow, an end for Michigan who scored five touchdowns in the 1902 Rose Bowl and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960. Bill Warner, a guard for Cornell who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971, Warner later served as the head football coach at Cornell, North Carolina, Colgate, St. Louis, and Oregon. Harold Weekes, a halfback for Columbia who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, the All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1901,17 of the 18 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, the undefeated Harvard Crimson team had eight players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only four consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were Neil Snow of Michigan, Paul Bunker and Charles Dudley Daly of Army, and Walter Bachman of Lafayette. During the 1901 season, Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute team at Michigan compiled an 11–0 record, four Michigan players were chosen for All-Western teams, end Neil Snow, halfback Willie Heston, quarterback Boss Weeks, and tackle Bruce Shorts. Another strong team from the West was Wisconsin which compiled a 9–0 record, yet, only one player from a western school, Snow of Michigan, was recognized as a first-team All-American in 1901. Caspar Whitney named two Wisconsin players, tackle Art Curtis and halfback Al Norsky Larson, as second-team All-Americans. In addition to Camp and Whitney, other writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1901. The list below includes the All-America selections made by the New York Post, only four players were unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, the New York Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. They were Dave Campbell, Oliver Cutts, Charles Dudley Daly, chadwick, Yale Al Norsky Larson, Wisconsin Henry Purcell, Cornell A. W. N. P. Stauffer Bold = Consensus All-Americans 1901 All-Southern college football team 1901 All-Western college football team
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1903 College Football All-America Team
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The 1903 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations and individuals that chose the teams included Colliers Weekly selected by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine, Charles Chadwick and Fielding H. Yost. The only three consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Fred Schacht of Minnesota, quarterback James Johnson of Carlisle, hooper, who was a freshman in 1903, died three months after the football season ended, following an attack of appendicitis. In 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934 and its selection for 1903 was Willie Heston of Michigan described as the nations finest back
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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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College football
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It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. No minor league farm organizations exist in American football and it is in college football where a players performance directly impacts his chances of playing professional football. The best collegiate players will declare for the professional draft after 3 to 4 years of collegiate competition. Those not selected can still attempt to land an NFL roster spot as a free agent. Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League, college football remained extremely popular throughout the U. S, in many cases, college stadiums employ bench-style seating, as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests. This allows them to more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium. College athletes, unlike players in the NFL, are not permitted by the NCAA to be paid salaries, colleges are only allowed to provide non-monetary compensation such as athletic scholarships that provide for tuition, housing, and books. Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as football, by the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football. The game was taken to Canada by British soldiers stationed there and was soon being played at Canadian colleges, the first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9,1861. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was William Mulock, a football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear. In 1864, at Trinity College, also a college of the University of Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland, modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians. The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, early games appear to have had much in common with the traditional mob football played in England. The games remained largely unorganized until the 19th century, when games of football began to be played on college campuses. Each school played its own variety of football, Princeton University students played a game called ballown as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as Bloody Monday began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes, in 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed the Bloody Monday had to go. The Harvard students responded by going into mourning for a figure called Football Fightum. The authorities held firm and it was a dozen years before football was again played at Harvard. Dartmouth played its own version called Old division football, the rules of which were first published in 1871, all of these games, and others, shared certain commonalities
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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Caspar Whitney
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Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in football in 1889 when he worked for Harpers Magazine. He was educated at Saint Mathews College in California, during the Spanish–American War, Whitney submitted articles from the front in Cuba. At the Battle of Las Guasimas, he accompanied General Youngs 1st and his published map of the battle is considered the most accurate of that action published at that time. His depiction of the fighting on the right is made from personal observation and his depiction of the left where the Rough Riders fought was based on post-battle interviews. He was a member of The Explorers Club after expeditions in North and South America. As a sports journalist he was an advocate of amateurism and was a member of the International Olympic Committee. He wrote on a range of subjects including big-game hunting, inter collegiate sporting contests, amateur versus professional contests. In the early 1900s, he edited The American Sportsmans Library, Whitney testified in a lawsuit against him that he earned a salary of $8,000 for editing Outing and $1,500 for editing the American Sportsmans Library. Whitney married three times, Anna Childs in 1889, Cora Adele Chase in 1897 and Florence Canfield in 1909, the latter was the daughter of the colorful miner and industrialist Charles A. Canfield. She participated in founding the League of Women Voters and remained active politically until her death in a vehicle accident in 1941. Sporting Pilgrimage On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds Hawaiian America Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat Jungle Trails, gott mit Uns - the Boche Delusion Hunt Clubs and Country Clubs in America Charles Adelbert Canfield Dillon Wallace Papers Edgar Rice Burroughs Library Explorers Club History
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Collier's
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Colliers was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was initially launched as Colliers Once a Week, then changed in 1895 to Colliers Weekly, An Illustrated Journal, and finally shortened in 1905 to simply Colliers. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated January 4,1957, though a brief, as a result of Peter Colliers pioneering investigative journalism, Colliers established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. When attempts by various companies to sue Collier ended in failure, Peter F. Collier left Ireland for the U. S. at age 17. Although he went to a seminary to become a priest, he started work as a salesman for P. J. Kenedy. When Collier wanted to boost sales by offering books on a plan, it led to a disagreement with Kenedy. P. F. Collier & Son began in 1875, expanding into the largest subscription house in America with sales of 30 million books during the 1900–1910 decade. With the issued dated April 28,1888, Colliers Once a Week was launched as a magazine of fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news. It was sold with the biweekly Colliers Library of novels and popular books at bargain rates, by 1892, with a circulation climbing past the 250,000 mark, Colliers Once a Week was one of the largest selling magazines in the United States. The name was changed to Colliers Weekly, An Illustrated Journal in 1895, with an emphasis on news, the magazine became a leading exponent of the halftone news picture. To fully exploit the new technology, Collier recruited James H. Hare, Colliers only son, Robert J. Collier, became a full partner in 1898. By 1904, the magazine was known as Colliers, The National Weekly, when Robert Collier died in 1918, he left a will that turned the magazine over to three of his friends, Samuel Dunn, Harry Payne Whitney and Francis Patrick Garvan. The magazine was sold in 1919 to the Crowell Publishing Company, in 1924 Crowell moved the printing operations from New York to Springfield, Ohio but kept the editorial and business departments in New York. After 1924, printing of the magazine was done at the Crowell-Collier printing plant on West Main Street in Springfield, Ohio. The factory complex, which is standing, was built between 1899 and 1946, and incorporates seven buildings that together have more than 846,000 square feet —20 acres —of floor space. Colliers popularized the story which was often planned to fit on a single page. Knox Burger was Colliers fiction editor from 1948 to 1951 when he left to edit books for Dell and Fawcett Publications, phillips Oppenheim, J. D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Payson Terhune and Walter Tevis. Humor writers included Parke Cummings and H. Allen Smith, serializing novels during the late 1920s, Colliers sometimes simultaneously ran two ten-part novels, and non-fiction was also serialized
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Sports Illustrated
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Sports Illustrated is an American sports media franchise owned by Time Inc. Its self-titled magazine has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million people each week and it was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue, which has published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos. There were two magazines named Sports Illustrated before the current magazine began on August 16,1954, in 1936, Stuart Scheftel created Sports Illustrated with a target market for the sportsman. He published the magazine from 1936 to 1938 on a monthly basis, the magazine was a life magazine size and focused on golf, tennis, and skiing with articles on the major sports. He then sold the name to Dell Publications, which released Sports Illustrated in 1949, dells version focused on major sports and competed on magazine racks against Sport and other monthly sports magazines. During the 1940s these magazines were monthly and they did not cover the current events because of the production schedules, there was no large-base, general, weekly sports magazine with a national following on actual active events. It was then that Time patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should attempt to fill that gap, at the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and did not think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. A number of advisers to Luce, including Life magazines Ernest Havemann, tried to kill the idea, but Luce, the goal of the new magazine was to be basically a magazine, but with sports. Launched on August 16,1954, it was not profitable and not particularly well run at first, but Luces timing was good. The popularity of sports in the United States was about to explode. The early issues of the magazine seemed caught between two opposing views of its audience, after more than a decade of steady losses, the magazines fortunes finally turned around in the 1960s when Andre Laguerre became its managing editor. A European correspondent for Time, Inc, in May 1956, Luce brought Laguerre to New York to become assistant managing editor of the magazine. He was also one of the first to sense the rise of national interest in professional football, Laguerre also instituted the innovative concept of one long story at the end of every issue, which he called the bonus piece. His genius as an editor was that he made you want to please him, Laguerre is also credited with the conception and creation of the annual Swimsuit Issue, which quickly became, and remains, the most popular issue each year. Regular illustration features by artists like Robert Riger, high school football Player of the Month awards. In 2015 Sports Illustrated purchased a group of companies and combined them to create Sports Illustrated Play. The magazines photographers also made their mark with innovations like putting cameras in the goal at a hockey game, by 1967, the magazine was printing 200 pages of fast color a year, in 1983, SI became the first American full-color newsweekly
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Paul Bunker
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Paul Delmont Bunker was an American football player and soldier. Military Academy and became the first football player at West Point to be selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp, Bunker was chosen as an All-American at the tackle position in 1901 and repeated as an All-American in 1902, but as a halfback. He served in the U. S. Army for 40 years and was in command of the artillery forces in the Battle of Corregidor. On the fall of Corregidor, Bunker became a prisoner of war and he died of starvation and disease in a Japanese prison camp in 1943 after losing 70 pounds. His posthumously published journal, Paul Bunkers Diary, became a best-seller and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969. Born in Alpena, Michigan, Bunker enrolled at the U. S, military Academy at West Point, New York. At West Point, Bunker played at the tackle and halfback positions on the football team from 1899-1902. At West Point, Bunker was a classmate of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, MacArthur also served as the manager of the Army football team in 1902 when Bunker was at his peak. Bunker was selected by Walter Camp as a member of the 1901 and 1902 College Football All-America Teams, Bunker is one of a handful of athletes to win All-America honors at two different positions. He was selected as an All-American tackle in 1901 and as a halfback in 1902, upperclassmen in the academy were accused of engaging in dangerous hazing activities with the first-year students, known as plebes. Bunker, well-known to the public for his accomplishments in football, some of the plebes told the Congressional committee conducting the investigation that Bunker had forced them to consume tabasco sauce. Bunker acknowledged having braced some of the plebes, but denied ever having more than fifteen drops of sauce to any one. The investigation led to a ban on all hazing at the academy and was the subject of the 1999 book, Bullies and Cowards, The West Point Hazing Scandal, Bunker went on to a 40-year career in the military specializing in coastal defense artillery. In 1915, Bunker was assigned to a position with a coast artillery regiment on Corregidor Island in the Philippines, Bunker served as a commander of Fort Amador in Panama. In 1927, he was charged with setting up a defense for the city of New York during a tour of duty at Fort Totten in Willets Point. In 1937, Bunker was assigned to a coast artillery unit at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, Los Angeles, in 1940, Bunker, then a colonel, returned to the Philippines and assumed command the 59th Coast Artillery Regiment at Fort Hughes in Manila Bay. There, Bunker was reunited with his roommate, Gen. Following the Japanese military offensive against the Philippines, President Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to evacuate the islands, MacArthur reluctantly left, promising to send reinforcements that never came
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Ivy League
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The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. While the term was in use as early as 1933, it became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period, Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution, the other two are Rutgers University and College of William & Mary. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, all eight universities place in the top fifteen of the U. S. News & World Report 2017 nation university rankings, including the top four schools and five of the top eight. Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,000 to 14,000, making them larger than those of a private liberal arts college. Total enrollments, including students, range from approximately 6,400 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard. Ivy League financial endowments range from Browns $3 billion to Harvards $36.4 billion, as of 2014, Harvard University has an endowment of $36.4 billion. Additionally, each university receives millions of dollars in grants and other subsidies from federal. Harvard University uses the date that the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally allocated funds for the creation of a college, Harvard was chartered in 1650, although classes had been conducted for approximately a decade by then. The University of Pennsylvania initially considered its founding date to be 1750, later in Penns early history, the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749, which was used for all of the nineteenth century, including a centennial celebration in 1849. In 1899, Penns board of trustees adopted a third founding date of 1740. Penn was chartered in 1755, the same year classes began. Religious affiliation refers to financial sponsorship, formal association with, and promotion by, all of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion. Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges, planting the ivy was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. In 1893 an alumnus told The Harvard Crimson, In 1850, the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time. At Penn, graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873, Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others
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Yale Bulldogs football
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The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. Yales football program is one of the oldest in the world, with 890 wins, Yale ranks second in wins in college football history, trailing only the University of Michigan. The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the days of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships. Walter Camp, known as the Father of Football, graduated from Hopkins Grammar School in 1876 and he later served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892. The team made the down and went on to win the game in one of Yales greatest victories in its history, laRoche went on to spearhead the creation of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. When the Ivy League athletic conference was formed in 1955, conference rules prohibited post-season play in football. While Yale had always abstained from post-season play, other schools had participated in bowls before, and the new policy further insulated Yale. The NCAA decided to split Division I into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for larger schools, and I-AA for the smaller ones. In 1982, the NCAA created a rule that stated an average attendance must be at least 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the hand, as only some of the member schools met the attendance qualification. Choosing to stay rather than stand their ground separately in the increasingly competitive I-A subdivision. Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, Yale has won 14 Ivy League championships,1956,1960,1967,1968,1969,1974,1976,1977,1979,1980,1981,1989,1999,2006. Harvard and Yale have been competing against each other in football since 1875, the annual rivalry game between the two schools, known as The Game, is played in November at the end of the football season. As of 2016, Yale leads the series 66–59–8, the Game is the second oldest continuing rivalry and also the third most-played rivalry game in college football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry and the Princeton–Yale game. Sports Illustrated On Campus rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry the sixth-best in college athletics in 2003, Harvard had been unbeaten versus Yale from 2007 to 2015. The nine game winning streak was the longest during the rivalry, Yales 2016 victory over Harvard in Cambridge, 21-14, ended the streak. The Game is significant for historical reasons as the rules of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Footballs rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of such as the mascot and fight song, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard
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Robert Boyers
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Robert Emlen Boyers was a United States Army officer and American football player and coach. He served as the football coach at the United States Military Academy from 1904 to 1905. Boyers was born on December 25,1876 and graduated from West Point in 1903 and he served during World War I with the 3rd Infantry Division in France and with the 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy. He lost his foot as the result of wounds and retired in 1919 with the rank of captain, robert Boyers at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Fielding H. Yost
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Fielding Harris Yost was an American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. During his 25 seasons as the football coach in Ann Arbor, Yosts Michigan Wolverines won six national championships, captured ten Big Ten Conference titles. From 1901 to 1905, his Point-a-Minute squads went 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821 to 42, the 1901 team beat Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. Under Yost, Michigan won four national championships from 1901 to 1904. In 1921, Yost became Michigans athletic director and served in capacity until 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951, Yost was also a successful business person, lawyer, and author, but he is best known as a leading figure in pioneering the development of college football into a national phenomenon. Yost was born in Fairview, West Virginia, in April 1871, Yosts family had settled in West Virginia, in 1925. He was the oldest of four children of Parmenus Wesley Yost and Elzena Jane Yost and his father was a farmer and Confederate veteran. His family had been in Fairview since 1825 when his great, great grandfather, David Yost, settled there, Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager. At seventeen, he got a teaching certificate. Yost began his education at Fairmont Normal School in Fairmont. He then taught school at Patterson Creek, West Virginia, during the 1889–90 school year, Yost next enrolled at Ohio Normal School. Yost played for the Ohio Normal baseball team, after three years at Ohio Normal, Yost returned to West Virginia to work in the oil fields. In 1895, Yost enrolled at West Virginia University where he studied law and he also played football for West Virginia University football team. A 6-foot,200 pounder, Yost was a standout at tackle at West Virginia into the 1896 season and he transferred in mid-season to join Coach Parke H. Daviss national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week playing against Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the Penn Quakers. The fortuitous timing of Yosts appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials and they called it the Yost affair. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football, the fact that Yost appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game, and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances
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1902 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1902 Western Conference football season. With a conference record of 5–0, Michigan won the Big Nine Conference championship, quarterback Boss Weeks was the teams captain and the leader of the Wolverines offense that twice scored more than 100 points against opponents and averaged 58.6 points per game. Right halfback Albert E. Herrnstein was the leading scorer with 135 points on 27 touchdowns. Fullback James E. Lawrence was the second-leading scorer with 113 points on 12 touchdowns and 53 extra point kicks, Willie Heston, Joe Maddock and Paul J. Jones added 15,12 and 11 touchdowns, respectively. Michigan opened the 1902 season with an 88–0 victory over Albion College, Michigan completed all but one drive with touchdowns. The Wolverines starters scored eight touchdowns and 45 points in the first 20-minute half, and the substitutes added seven touchdowns, on defense, Michigan allowed only a single first down by Albion. The game was played in halves of 20 minutes each, rinehart of Lafayette was the umpire, and Thomas of Michigan was the referee. Michigans starting lineup was Redden, Johnson, Baker, Gregory, Lawrence, Maddock, Cole, Weeks, Heston, Herrnstein, in its second game of the 1902, Michigan played the Case Scientific School of Cleveland. The October 4 game was the meeting between the schools. Although Michigan scored eight touchdowns and easily defeated Case by a score of 48 to 6, Michigan had not allowed any points to be scored in the first 12 games under Fielding Yost. The headline in the Detroit Free Press referred not to Michigans victory but instead read, the Michigan Alumnus wrote that the touchdown by Case caused consternation among coach, team, and students as it had been their fondest hope that the goal line should remain uncrossed another year. The game was played in halves of 20 minutes each, rinehart of Lafayette was the umpire, and Gaston of Cleveland was the referee. Michigans starting lineup was Redden, Lawrence, McGugin, Gregory, Carter, Maddock, Cole, Weeks, Kidston, Herrnstein, Michigan played a mid-week game against Michigan Agricultural College on Wednesday, October 8,1902, four days after the win against Case. Michigan attained its highest point total of the year, defeating the Aggies by a score of 119-0, the Wolverines scored 71 points in the first half of 20 minutes and 48 in the second half of 18 minutes. The Michigan Alumnus called it the greatest fusillade of touchdowns ever known to the football world, Michigan was held on downs only once in the game, and the Aggies made only three first downs. Right halfback Albert Herrnstein ran back a kickoff the length of the field, the game was played in two halves of 20 minutes and 18 minutes. Demonstrating the understatement of the Point-a-Minute name given to the team, the Wolverines scored 119 points in 38 minutes of play, an average of 3.1 points per minute. After the game, The Newark Advocate wrote, Michigan has undoubtedly the fastest scoring team in the world, and it requires a fast team to take the ball, line up and score 119 points, even if they have no opponents in two 20 minute halves
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Willie Heston
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William Martin Willie Heston was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan, Heston was the head football coach for Drake University in 1905 and North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North Carolina State University, in 1906. After he retired from coaching, he practiced law and served as a court judge in Michigan. Heston was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and he was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as the halfback for its all-time team for the first 50 years of the sport. University of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost rated him as the greatest player of all-time, Heston was born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1878. His father, John William Heston, was a tenant farmer near Galesburg, at age four, Heston moved with his family to a river-bottom farm in Rippey, Iowa. At age nine, Heston moved with his family to a ranch in southwestern Kansas, in 1894, Heston moved with his family to a farm in Grants Pass, Oregon. As a teenager, he worked digging a ditch to supply water to a mine and chopping down, the local high school principal, Professor Champ Price, met Heston and suggested that he attend high school. Heston attended Grants Pass High School starting in 1895, and it was there that his ability as a runner was discovered. He graduated from school in 1898 as the co-valedictorian of his class. In 1898, Heston enrolled at San Jose State Normal School in San Jose, California, Heston was introduced to football while attending San Jose State. San Joses football coach, Jesse Woods, put Heston at the position where he scored more touchdowns in his first year of football than any of the regular players. A newspaper reported on Heston in 1898, A star run of left half Heston made 70 yards … Heston was easily the star of the game, no better performance than his has been witnessed in this state. San Joses 1899 football team, with Heston as the captain, lost only one game, during the 1900 season, San Jose was undefeated and played Chico State Normal School to a 6-6 tie in the championship game. The teams agreed to a three weeks later, and Stanfords coach Fielding H. Yost agreed to coach the San Jose State team in the two weeks leading up to the rematch. With Yosts guidance, San Jose State beat Chico State 46 to 0 in the rematch, Heston received his teaching degree from San Jose State and accepted a teaching job in Oregon in 1901. Heston initially declined, but subsequently agreed and joined Yost at the University of Michigan in late summer of 1901, Heston was enrolled in the law school. With Heston in the backfield, the Michigan Wolverines had four of the most successful seasons in the history of college football, the 1901 to 1904 teams became known as the Point-a-Minute teams because they averaged more than a point for every minute played
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Joe Maddock (coach)
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Joseph Herbert Maddock was an American college football player and coach. He was an All-Western tackle for the University of Michigans Point-a-Minute football teams in 1902 and 1903 and he also set a Western Conference record in the hammer throw. He later served as a football coach at the University of Utah. Maddock was born in East Jordan, Michigan and began his career at Albion College. In 1901, the 24-year-old Maddock played for Albion football coach Chester Brewer who taught him the Wisconsin style of tackle play, Maddock was so effective against the University of Michigan in 1901 that Coach Fielding H. Yost enticed him to transfer to Michigan. He became a star for Yosts Point-a-Minute teams in 1902 and 1903 and he played tackle and punter at the University of Michigan on Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute teams. Though he was a lineman, Maddock was also used as a carrier in short-yardage situations. As reported by The New York Times, the Wolverines used big Joe Maddock, in Michigans 1903 victory over Minnesota, Maddock, and Willie Heston were the Wolveriness biggest ground gainers. After the game, Coach Yost told reporters, They would not be stopped by ordinary tackles nor by less than three or four Minnesota men, who sometimes had to sit on them to them at all. Maddock gained extensive attention for his role in Michigans 1903 win over Wisconsin by a score of 16–0, Michigan has a series of new plays in which Maddocks multiple duties are possible. On defense, he will tackle, when Wisconsins line is to be bucked Maddock will be full back in plays whose exact nature is a secret. Maddock was selected as a first-team All-Western player in both 1902 and 1903 and he was a unanimous All-Western pick in 1903. Maddock was also a wrestler and member of the University of Michigan track team. In May 1903, he broke the Western Intercollegiate hammer throw record with a throw of 141 feet, Maddock later became a successful coach at the University of Utah and University of Oregon. In 1904, he was hired as the football, basketball and track coach at the University of Utah. When Maddock was hired in September 1904, a Salt Lake City newspaper reported that the team hoped to see some Yost style football, Utah is to see some real Yost football this year. Maddock certainly understands the Michigan system, and with fair material tho University ought to have a team this season that will trim anything in the intermountain country, from 1904 to 1909, he led Utah to a 36–9–1 record. In 1905, a reported that Maddock is the whole goods at Utah
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Boss Weeks
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Harrison Samuel Boss Weeks, Jr. was an American football player and coach. He played quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1902 and served as football coach at the University of Kansas in 1903. Weeks was the quarterback and on-field leader of Michigans national champion Point-a-Minute teams that went 22–0, Weeks was born to Harrison Samuel Weeks, Sr. and Julia W. Weeks, who married on January 14,1874 in Fort Union, New Mexico. He was born in Fort McIntosh, Texas, where his father and his parents met while his father was stationed at Fort Union, New Mexico, as his mothers family was from nearby rural Mora County, New Mexico. He spent his childhood growing up on military posts in New Mexico and Texas. He was the fourth-oldest of eight brothers, five of whom played football for the University of Michigan and his eldest brother, Frank Russel Weeks, instead became a soldier like their father and later a civil servant working for the US Treasury Department. Boss Weeks enrolled at Michigan in 1899 and played on the scrub team as a freshman. As a sophomore, Weeks made the varsity team where he was the backup quarterback to Edwin McGinnis. In 1901, a new era in Michigan football began as Fielding H. Yost was hired as the new football coach. Yost immediately taught Weeks and the Michigan team a new, lightning-fast offense, under the new scheme, Weeks would call the signals for the next play without a huddle, sometimes while he was still under the pile from the previous play. If a player was too slow getting line up for the play, Yost would yell from the sideline. Weeks started all 11 games at quarterback for the 1901 Michigan Wolverines and had success with Yosts new system. The 1901 team led by Weeks went undefeated and scored 550 points, earning the team the nickname, Point-a-Minute. The 1901 team was strong on defense, not allowing a single point to be scored through the entire season. Michigan was invited to play in the first Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California on January 1,1902, the following June, the Michigan team elected Weeks as the captain of the 1902 team. Weeks led the 1902 team to another 11–0 record, and the team increased its offensive scoring output to an unprecedented 644 points, the team scored 119 points against Michigan Agricultural and 107 points against Iowa. The only minor blemish on the record of the 1902 team was that, after not allowing opponents to score a point in 1901. Some consider the 1901 and 1902 Point-a-Minute teams to be the greatest teams in Michigan Wolverines football history, looking back in 1930, Fielding Yost said of Weeks, Michigan had one outstanding leader, Boss Weeks, quarterback of the first two teams I coached here
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Everett Sweeley
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Everett Marlin Sweeley was an American football player and coach. He played fullback, halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H. Yosts 1901 and 1902 Point-a-Minute teams. He then served as the football coach at Morningside College in 1903. He also coached basketball and baseball at Washington State, after retiring from football, Sweeley became a lawyer and judge in Idaho. Sweeley was born in Adel, Iowa in 1880, at the time of the 1885 Iowa State Census, Sweeley was living in Storm Lake, Iowa. He attended high school at Sioux City, Iowa, Sweeley enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1899. He played four years of football at Michigan from 1899 to 1902 at the end, fullback, and halfback positions, before enrolling at Michigan, Sweeley said he had never seen a college football game. In four seasons, he missed one game, the result of what Sweeley called a little row with a math professor. While playing for Michigan, Sweeley set the college record for the longest kick on record. In 1902, he kicked the football 86 yards before touching the ground, Sweeley also held an enviable distinction unboasted by any other hero of the gridiron. In four years punting for Michigan, he never had a punt blocked. Sweeley was known for punts that were high and long. He would reportedly tell his ends accurately where each punt was to go, Sweeley was also an expert place kicker, scoring over 100 points for Michigan in this manner. In the 1902 Rose Bowl, Sweeley kicked four field goals and his towering punts outdistanced the end-over-end kicks of the Indians by 20 yards. After graduating from Michigan, Sweeley went into coaching and his coaching record at Washington State was 6 wins,6 losses, and 0 ties. After retiring from coaching, Sweeley moved to Twin Falls, Idaho where he worked as a lawyer, in September 1907, he married Hazel Jury Brown at Spokane, Washington. According to the 1920 United States Census, Sweeley and his wife had two children at that time, Jean B Sweeley and Anna L. Sweeley, Sweeley also became an expert trap shooter and ballistics expert. In 1916, he won the interstate trapshooting championship and he was elected prosecutor in 1938
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Paul Jones (judge)
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Paul Jones was an American football player and coach and United States federal judge. He played fullback for the University of Michigans national championship team in 1902. He practiced law from 1905 to 1920 and served as an Ohio state court judge from 1920 to 1923, in 1923, he was appointed as a United States district court judge in Cleveland, a position he held until his death in 1965. Jones was born in Youngstown, Ohio and he attended the University of Michigan where he studied law and also played football. Jones worked in a Youngstown boiler shop for five cents an hour during his summer vacations and he was the starting fullback on Fielding H. Yosts 1902 Point-a-Minute football team that finished the season 11–0 and outscored opponents 644 to 12. After the 1901 season, one account read His work at fullback has been exceptionally good, Jones was a popular player, and in October 1902 newspaper accounts reported that he led the students in singing the varsity yell at a singing bee preceding the football game against Wisconsin. Jones was six-feet tall and weighed 170 pounds as Michigans fullback in 1902, after being a starter on the 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Jones contracted typhoid fever and was unable to play in 1903. In March 1903, Jones left the university for a year to recuperate from the effects of typhoid fever, Jones received an LL. B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1904. Jones was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1904, but after graduating from Michigan, Jones entered the private practice of law in Youngstown, Ohio in 1905. He was a Referee in Bankruptcy of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio from 1912 to 1916, Jones was appointed Youngstown city attorney, a position he held from 1916 to 1920. He also ran for mayor of Youngstown, an election he lost by 400 votes, in 1920, he was elected as a Court of Common Pleas judge for Mahoning County, serving in that role from 1920 to 1923. Jones was nominated by President Warren G. Harding to the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on February 28,1923, confirmed by the Senate on March 2,1923, he received his commission the same day. Jones developed a reputation for his comments from the bench. In 1932, as Prohibition was being widely blamed with causing the spread of racketeering and organized crime, Judge Jones asserted that the influence of Prohibition on crime was exaggerated. In 1933, Judge Jones gained attention when he sentenced a 46-year-old pregnant mother of ten to 15 days in jail for selling a quart of liquor to federal agents for 50 cents. As he sentenced her, Judge Jones lectured her on the advantages of birth control, closing his comments by asking, in 1934, he criticized windy lawyers for their briefs of Voltairian proportions which unduly burden the court and tire it out. Jones gained national attention in 1946 when he ruled that rent control laws were unconstitutional and he held that, while rent control may have been permissible during the wartime emergency, Congress lacked the power to continue the restrictions when peace has returned in fact. Judge Jones, of the Northern Ohio District Court, handed down the ruling that the rent law is unconstitutional
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Curtis Redden
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Curtis Gerald Cap Redden was an American football player. He was the left end for the University of Michigans football team from 1901–1904. He played for Michigans Point-a-Minute teams and was selected as an All-Western player in 1903. Redden died of pneumonia while serving in the U. S. Army in Germany at the end of World War I, Redden was born in Danville, Illinois. Redden, was an Indiana native and a lawyer and his mother, Sarah E. Redden, was also an Indiana native. Redden had two brothers, Forest and James, and a younger sister, Jessie. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Redden was living in Rossville, Illinois with his parents, Redden enrolled at the University of Michigan where he became one of the stars of Fielding H. Yosts famous Point-a-Minute teams of 1901,1902, and 1903. The 1901 team compiled a record of 11–0 and outscored its opponents 550–0, in Reddens sophomore, junior and senior years, Michigan was 33–0–1 and outscored opponents by a total of 1,764 to 18. At the end of his season, Redden was a unanimous first-team All-Western selection, including designations by the Chicago Record-Herald, The Chicago Daily News. He was one of five players upon whom the Western football critics have been able to unanimously agree. Offensively his skill lies in assisting his tackle in boxing an opponent, Redden was also selected as a third-team All-American by Walter Camp. After he graduated, one paper noted the impact his loss would have on the 1904 team, for four years he was regarded as the greatest end the west ever produced. An all-around athlete, Redden was selected as the captain of Michigans football and baseball teams in his senior year. One newspaper summed up Reddens athletic career at Michigan as follows, Redden was captain not only of this years Michigan football team and he is a natural football player and is one of the best ends the Middle West has ever produced. He is also captain of the track team, being the only man who has had the distinction of holding both stations of honor at the same time. With the success of Yosts Point-a-Minute teams, his players were in great demand as coaches. And in 1905, Redden was hired as the coach at Kentucky University. In November 1905, a newspaper reported on Reddens progress at Kentucky, undoubtedly, the close, hard game given the purple bv Reddens pupils, helped pull Northwestern down to the weakened condition in which Staggs men found McCormicks players
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Dan McGugin
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Daniel Earle McGugin was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1934. He is the winningest head coach in the history of the university, McGugin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951 as part of its inaugural class. Zipp Newman once wrote “I believe Dan McGugin would have gone down in history as the greatest of all coaches had he given all of his time to coaching. He was a great play-maker, but football was a sport for the beloved McGugin and law was his profession. ”McGugin was born in July 1879 on a farm near Tingley and he was the son of Benjamin Franklin McGugin and Melissa McGugin. He was of Scottish and Irish descent, McGugin saw the baton twirling skills of W. W. Wharton in Tingley for a Sunday evening church service one day in 1896 and was intrigued. Wharton, Drake Universitys first football coach, suggested he play football instead, come to Drake University, Wharton suggested, and well make you as fine a tackle as there is. McGugin enrolled at Drake University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901 and he played football at Drake for two years at the guard and tackle positions and was considered one of the best players that Drake ever had. After one victory he purchased a small cannon and fired it at regular fifteen-minute intervals, nodding politely to neighbors Sabbath complaints. After graduating from Drake, McGugin enrolled in law school at the University of Michigan, while there, McGugin played college football for Fielding H. Yost. He was a player on Michigans Point-a-Minute teams that outscored their opponents,1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902, as a guard he is careful yet nervy. He gets the jump on his opponents and keeps the advantage, although a hard player he goes into each scrimmage with as much composure as if he were walking along the campus. McGugin, although good in every department of his position, has two qualities that are pre-eminent, namely, making interference and opening holes, heston has been especially fortunate this year in having a good interference, and part of that interference has been McGugin. McGugin was the football coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1904 to 1917. During his tenures, the Vanderbilt Commodores compiled a 197–55–19 record, had a.762 winning percentage, and won 11 conference titles. He had numerous intersectional triumphs, defeating the Carlisle Indians in 1906, and tying the Navy Midshipmen in 1907, the Yale Bulldogs in 1910, McGugin used his mentor Yosts short punt formation. In his first career game, McGugins team defeated Mississippi A&M and he went on to win his next two games by 60 points as well. He remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points and he also won each of his first 11 games by more than 20 points
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The Post-Standard
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The Post-Standard is a major daily newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York metro area. Published by Advance Publications, it is one of two brands of the Syracuse Media Group, formed in 2012 as a digitally focused company, the other major brand is Syracuse. com. The newspaper is published seven days a week and is home-delivered to subscribers on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday and it is available in retail outlets and via e-edition every day. The Post-Standard was founded in 1829 as The Onondaga Standard, the first issue was published Sept.10,1829, after Vivus W. Smith consolidated the Onondaga Journal with the Syracuse Advertiser under The Onondaga Standard name. Through the 1800s, it was known variously as The Weekly Standard, The Daily Standard, on July 10,1894, The Syracuse Post was first published. On Dec.26,1898, the owners of The Daily Standard, the first issue of the newly merged paper was published Jan. The merged company was based at 136 E. Genesee St. in Syracuse, by 1900, Syracuse had a population of 135,000 and the publication had a sworn circulation of 17,575 daily,12,571 semi-weekly and 15,195 on Sunday. It was touted as a clean, wholesome, aggressive, up-to-date newspaper, the newspaper bragged that The Post-Standard has a larger circulation than any other daily paper between Greater New York and Rochester. He also launched a Sunday paper, the Herald American, in 1944, Newhouse bought The Post-Standard. The news and editorial departments of the newspapers operated independently from each other for decades, the Post-Standard was published in the morning, the Herald-Journal in the afternoon, and the Herald American on Sundays. Until 1971, when a new building on Clinton Square opened, the newspapers became known collectively as The Syracuse Newspapers. By the turn of the century, it became apparent that Syracuse could no longer support two newspapers, the Herald-Journal closed in September 2001, and was merged into The Post-Standard. The newspaper company was an early adopter of digital media, the company launched digital audio services delivered via telephone in the early 1990s. The company started Syracuse. com in November 1994, the newspaper collaborated with Syracuse Universitys iSchool on the launch. At first, the website was branded Syracuse OnLine and until the summer of 1995 operated on a server hosted at syr. edu, few newspapers were establishing websites back then, most were partnering with CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or other proprietary systems. In December 2001, the newspaper began printing on a new offset lithography press made in Switzerland by Wifag, the 750-ton five-story press allowed for color on just about every page, and the newspaper soon began using the front-page motto, America’s Most Colorful Paper. The press is housed in a 45, 000-square-foot, glass-enclosed press hall constructed at the back of the newspaper building, the Wifag press replaced a 33-year-old machine using the letterpress technique. The new press and building expansion cost $39.5 million, the newspaper remains owned Advance Publications
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Syracuse, New York
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Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. It is the largest U. S. city with the name Syracuse, and is the fifth most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170 and it is the economic and educational hub of Central New York, a region with over a million inhabitants. Syracuse is also well-provided with convention sites, with a convention complex. Syracuse was named after the original Greek city Syracuse, a city on the eastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily. The city has functioned as a crossroads over the last two centuries, first between the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then of the railway network. Today, Syracuse is located at the intersection of Interstates 81 and 90, Syracuse is home to Syracuse University, a major research university, as well as Le Moyne College, a nationally recognized liberal arts college. In 2010, Forbes rated Syracuse 4th in the top 10 places in the U. S. to raise a family, the Syracuse area was first seen by Europeans when French missionaries came to the area in the 1600s. Marie de Gannentaha, on the northeast shore of Onondaga Lake, Jesuit missionaries visiting the Syracuse region in the mid 1600s reported salty brine springs around the southern end of Salt Lake, known today as Onondaga Lake. It is the north flowing brine from Tully that is the source of salt for the salty springs found along the shoreline of Onondaga lake, the rapid development of this industry in the 18th and 19th centuries led to the nicknaming of Syracuse as The Salt City. In 1847, the city was named after Syracuse, Sicily. In 1861, he developed the process for the manufacture of soda ash from brine wells dug in the southern end of Tully valley. The process was an improvement over the earlier Leblanc process, the Syracuse Solvay plant was the incubator for a large chemical industry complex owned by Allied Signal in Syracuse, the result of which made Onondaga Lake the most polluted in the nation. The salt industry declined after the Civil War, but a new manufacturing industry arose in its place, the Geneva Medical College was founded in 1834. It is now known as Upstate Medical University, one of four medical colleges in the State University of New York system. The first New York State Fair was held in Syracuse in 1841, world War II sparked significant industrial expansion in the area, specialty steel, fasteners, custom machining. After the war, two of the Big Three automobile manufacturers had major operations in the area, Syracuse was headquarters for Carrier Corporation, and Crouse-Hinds manufactured traffic signals in Syracuse. General Electric had its television manufacturing plant at Electronics Parkway in Syracuse
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Thomas Shevlin
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Thomas Leonard Shevlin was an All-American football end and coach at Yale University and a millionaire lumberman. He was a consensus All-American three of his four years, selected a first-team All-American by some selector in all and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Shevlin was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Thomas Henry and his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota when he was a young boy, and his father became successful in the lumber business and active in Republican Party politics. Shevlin attended the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and then enrolled at Yale University, Shevlin attended Yale from 1902 to 1906. He became best known as a player, but also competed in track and field, baseball, boxing. By 1905, Shevlin had a reputation as Yales premier athlete. He was six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds when in training and 212 pounds out of training. One newspaper account described his athletic prowess as follows, The famous athlete has won a Y in three branches of sport and might win two or three more if he had time to devote to that many games. As left fielder on the team, as hammer thrower on the track team. He also is a sprinter, basketball player, tennis expert. He can run 100 yards in less than 11 seconds and could make the varsity tennis. He is not on the team simply because he has not the time to devote to the game. Shevlin played for Yales varsity football team from 1902 to 1905 and he was selected as an All-American at the end position each year, making him one of a handful of four-time All-American in the history of college football. During his time at Yale, the team defeated Princeton three times and Harvard four times. As a senior in 1905, Shevlin was captain of the Yale football team that has called the best aggregation that ever represented the school. It was said that in his years at Yale, not an opposing rushing attack has gained a first down around his end, the 1905 Yale team went 10–0, outscored its opponents 227–4, and was picked as co-national champions with the University of Chicago. For his accomplishments in leading the team, Shevlin became known as the Miracle man of football. In 1905, college football came under fire by university presidents, Shevlin spoke in defense of the sport
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Sol Metzger
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Sol S. Metzger was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, college athletics administrator, and sports journalist. Metzger was also the basketball coach at South Carolina for one season in 1920–21. In addition, Metzger wrote a syndicated sports column. Metzger was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania on December 29,1880 and he was of son of American Civil War veteran Captain Sol Metzger and his wife Margaret Metzger. He was one of six children with three brothers and two sisters, growing up in Bedford he attended Bedford Public Schools and the Bedford Academy before going to Phillips-Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips-Andover Academy in 1899 where he was a member of the team as a member of the quarter mile relay team. Metzger was a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1903 with a Bachelor of Architecture and he was active in many organizations including Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Sphinx Society. He was also manager of the University’s monthly periodical, The Red. At Penn he was much involved in several athletic programs including being the manager of the varsity rowing team. Metzger made the football team. He lettered three years at end and quarterback on the varsity team and his first varsity year was played under College Football Hall of Fame coach George Washington Woodruff and last two under Carl S. Williams. In 1901, Metzger first season for the Quakers, he played as a backup, the team started strong by winning their first seven games, but were weakened in part to injuries accumulated during the earlier games. The Quakers lost five out the last eight to finish the season 10–5, the five losses were the most under Woodruff. In addition to the season the team had to deal with an undergraduate. This led to Head Coach George W. Woodruff to resign as coach, after Woodruff resignation was accepted, the members of the football team sent a letter to the Football Committee unanimously requesting that Woodruff be reinstated as coach. In 1902, Carl Sheldon Williams succeeded George W. Woodruff as coached, the following year Metzger was named captain and led Penn to a 9–3 mark. During his playing career he was best known for playing right end on Defense where he was known for his tackling and stopping the opposition’s runs around end, after graduating from Penn, he took a job as coach at Baylor University. He compiled a 2–5–1 record in 1904, in 1908, Metzger succeeded Carl Williams, his former coach, at the University of Pennsylvania
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Robert Torrey
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Bob Torrey was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971, in 1905, Torrey helped the University of Pennsylvania claim an undefeated record, winning 12 and tying 1 game against Lafayette College, 6-6. When the Quakers went 12-0-0 in 1904, only Swarthmore College had been able to score against them, Torrey was considered one of the best linemen in 1905 and later won All-American honors. Maxwell reportedly continue to play until near the end of the game,1905,18 players died playing college football and 159 were seriously injured. A newspaper photo was taken of face, the photo then found its way to President Theodore Roosevelt. Bob Torrey, was the Penn player opposite of Maxwell that day, while several writers and scholars have made exhaustive searches for the photo of Maxwell’s battered face, none have ever been found. The 1960s and 1970s update of the Encyclopedia also continued to run the Maxwell-Roosevelt story, the Maxwell Football Club, formed by sportswriters and athletic officials to honor Maxwell, picked up the story and made it more credible. As a result, it became the official account of 1905 and was enshrined in Jack Falla’s history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and at the College Football Hall of Fame. What is absolutely certain is that on October 9,1905, Teddy Roosevelt held a meeting of representatives from Harvard, Yale. Though he lectured on eliminating and reducing injuries, he never threatened to ban football or mentioned the Maxwell injury and he also lacked the authority to abolish football. In fact he was actually a fan of the game, the Presidents sons were also playing football at the college and secondary levels at the time
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Fred Schacht
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Frederick E. Schacht was an American college football coach, player, and medical doctor. He served as the coach at the University of Kentucky from 1904 to 1905. Kentucky amassed a 15–4–1 record during his tenure, a native of Minneapolis, Schacht joined the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and served with the 13th Minnesota Volunteers. He then attended the University of Minnesota, and was initiated as a member of the Nu Sigma Nu professional medical fraternity on March 9,1901 and he played on the football team as a tackle in 1903, and the 216-pound Schacht was reportedly a terror on offense. He starred in Minnesotas 1903 victory over Wisconsin, but gained his greatest acclaim for his role in that game against Michigan. Schacht broke three ribs shortly before the game, but refused to go to the hospital and showed up beforehand with his body encased in a steel harness, despite the broken ribs, he carried the ball three times for 40-, 50- and 60-yard gains after the kickoff. The contest ended in a tie, which made it the first game Michigan had not won in three years, with Schacht being hailed throughout the west as the greatest tackle of a decade. After the season, he was named to several All-America teams, Caspar Whitneys first team, Walter Camps second team, Schacht received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Minnesota in 1903. At graduation, he worked at the City Hospital in Minneapolis, within a year Schacht soon moved to Fergus Falls, Minnesota. From 1904 to 1905, he served as the football coach at the University of Kentucky. During the first year of his tenure, a controversy erupted before the Thanksgiving Day game against bitter cross-town rival Transylvania University, hottentots, Flat-head Indians, Patagonians, Native Australians, Esquimaux, New Yorkers, Danvillians, Cincinnatians, Hoodoos, Burgoos, Whatnots, Topnots. Kentucky won the game easily, 21–4, Kentucky struggled the following season, and was shut out, 82–0, by Saint Louis. Controversy arose prior to the Thanksgiving rivalry against Transylvania when Kentucky again protested the eligibility of some opposing players and this time, however, neither school could come to an agreement, and the game was cancelled altogether. Transylvania scheduled Ohio Wesleyan instead, while Kentucky held elections for the years team captains. Kentucky amassed a 15–4–1 record during his tenure, on November 26,1904, he married Sophia Gloria née Weise in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1905, he opened a store in Burlington, Washington. After several months of illness, Schacht died at the Providence Hospital in Seattle on December 1,1906 at the age of 31 and it was the opinion of the attending physicican that overtraining during his football career was responsible for a weakened heart that resulted in his death. Another account states that he died from Brights disease, Minnesotas football coach Dr. Henry L. Williams denied suggestions that the death was the result of overtraining
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John DeWitt (athlete)
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John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete, including a legendary college football player. As a track and field athlete, DeWitt competed mainly in the hammer throw and he competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis in the hammer throw where he won the silver medal. He was also a prominent guard and kicker for the Princeton Tigers football team, in an attempt to name retroactive Heisman Trophy winners, Dewitt was awarded it for 1903. Walter Camp placed him on an all-time All-America team, one writer calls him Princetons greatest football player. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954
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Bill Warner
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William J. Bill Warner was an American football player and coach. Warner graduated from Cornell University in 1903 and was a member of the Sphinx Head Society and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Warner was the brother of famed football coach Pop Warner, in 1902, Bill and Glenn both played pro football for the Syracuse Athletic Club during the first World Series of Football, held at Madison Square Garden. It was during this event, that Warner played in the very first professional football game as his Syracuse squad upset the heavily favored New York team. While Glenn was injured during the event with an injury, Bill. Archived from the original on 2010-12-15, peterson, Robert W. Pigskin, The Early Years of Pro Football. Oregon Ducks Football,100 Years of Glory, Bill Warner at the College Football Hall of Fame Bill Warner at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Charles Dudley Daly
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He also served as Fire Commissioner in Boston during the 1910s. Daly attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University, where he was a member of ΑΔΦ, the Fly Club, and he also graduated from West Point in 1905. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. as instructor, promoted major 1920 and he was also stationed at Ft. Sam Houston, Schofield Barracks, the U. S. Army War College, and Ft. Leavenworth. Daly played football for both Harvard and West Point teams and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. Daly coached American football teams at both Harvard and West Point, in 1921 he founded the American Football Coaches Association. At West Point he was an Assistant Professor of Military Science, an athletic field there is named in honor of him. List of college football coaches with non-consecutive tenure Daly, Charles Dudley. A Harvard View of the International Games, appeared in the film Daly, of West Point
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George B. Chadwick
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George Brewster Chadwick was an All-American football player and coach. He played college football for Yale University from 1899 to 1902 and was the coach of the 1903 Yale football team. After working for a time in the hardware and sales fields, Chadwick had a career as a teacher of English, history. Chadwick was born in Brooklyn, New York, in June 1880 and his father Charles Noyes Chadwick was the president of C. N. Chadwick Co. manufacturers of childrens underwaists and boys shirtwaists. His mother was Alice Ann Chadwick was born in Northern Ireland, Chadwick attended the Froebel Academy, Brooklyn Latin School and Brooklyn High School. Chadwick enrolled at Yale University in 1898 and he played halfback for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1899 to 1902. In December 1901, he was selected by his teammates as the captain of the 1902 Yale football team and he led the 1900 and 1902 Yale teams to undefeated seasons, and he was also selected as a first-team College Football All-American in 1900 and 1902. He scored all of Yales points in a 12–5 victory over Harvard in 1902 on runs of 53 and 55 yards, in his book, The History of American Football, Allison Danzig referred to Chadwick as the phantom line cleaver. While playing football at Yale, Chadwick was 5 feet 10 inches in height, in 1951, Chadwick recalled the Yale teams on which he played, noting that our game was not as intricate or deceptive as it is today but that the old game had precision. While attending Yale, Chadwick was also a member of the University Glee Club, Psi Upsilon, after graduating as part of Yales class of 1903, Chadwick agreed to return as the schools head football coach in the fall of 1903. Chadwick coached the 1903 Yale football team to an 11–1 record, the 1903 teams only loss came against Princeton by a score of 11–6. During the period from 1899 to 1912, Yale had 14 different head coaches in 14 years – despite compiling a combined record of 127–11–10 in those years. At the conclusion of the 1903 football season, Chadwick accepted a position with the Southern Railroad Company, St. Louis and he held positions with that company in Princeton, Indiana, and East St. Louis, Illinois. In August 1904, he employed by the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis. At the time of the 1910 United States Census, Chadwick was living with his parents in Brooklyn, as of 1917, Chadwick was reported to be employed by The Patterson Manufacturing Company of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. During World War I, Chadwick served in the U. S. Army, after the war, he worked as the editor of a Red Cross magazine. At some point after 1918, Chadwick became a school teacher and he taught English, history and Latin at various private boys schools. At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Chadwick was living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1927, he published his only book - Chuck Blue of Sterling - a story of college life and football
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Thomas A. Barry
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Thomas Austin Barry was an American college football coach and player, lawyer, and industrial adviser. He served as the coach at Tulane University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wisconsin. Barry attended Harvard Law School and Brown University, where he played on the team and was named an All-American in 1902. A native of Brockton, Massachusetts, Barry attended Brown University, where he played on the team, and received varsity letters in 1899,1900. He served as the captain in 1902, and led Brown to its first win against Pennsylvania, 15–6. Barry scored on a 50- and 31-yard run and a 28-yard field goal and it was the first time he had ever attempted to kick a field goal. That season, Caspar Whitney named him to his All-America first team and Walter Camp named him to his second team. He also played on the team, and The Boston Post later wrote, he became pioneer in the art of stealing home. He stole home against Harvard, Dartmouth, and Yale, Barry graduated from Brown in 1903. He later graduated from Harvard Law School, after graduation from Brown, Barry coached the football team at Bowdoin College in 1903. The following year, he played minor league baseball for Albany in the Eastern League, during the 1904 season, he led the Olive and Blue to a 5–2 record. Barry coached Notre Dame from 1906 to 1907 and amassed a 12–1–1 record, several years earlier the Western Conference had denied Notre Dame admission because of its small enrollment. In hopes it would gain an invitation, Barry ensured Notre Dame followed the Western Conference regulations. In a Notre Dame alumni publication in 1931, an article titled Coaches Before Rockne wrote of him and he believed in leading his men, never in pushing them, and in giving every man a fair trial, playing no favorites. A proof of Barrys football knowledge came forward in 1907, the material was terrible and things looked mighty gloomy. The team was tied for championship honors, Barry left Notre Dame to take over as the coach of the football and baseball teams at Wisconsin from 1908 to 1910. In football, he amassed a 9–4–3 record, Notre Dame invited Barry back as its head coach, but he declined to pursue his career in law. In January 1911, the University of Denver hired him as its football and baseball coach
