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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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1911 college football season
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The 1911 NCAA football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912. In 1911, touchdowns were worth five points, the field was 110 yards in length, although no team finished the season unbeaten and untied, the United States Naval Academy finished with a record of 6 wins and 3 ties. Two of the ties were 0-0 games with the other major teams, Penn State. Other teams that finished the season unbeaten were Minnesota and Florida, Vanderbilt beat visiting Centre College 45-0, in its first four games, Vandy had outscored its opposition 164-0. Carlisle beat Lafayette 19-0 At Philadelphia, Penn State beat Pennsylvania, army beat Lehigh 20-0 Georgetown beat St. Johns College of Maryland, 20-0. Princeton beat Holy Cross 20-0 Minnesota won at Iowa 24-6, Carlisle won its 8th game, 16-0 over Penn. Michigan and Syracuse played to a 6-6 tie, Georgia beat Clemson three days later at Augusta, 22-0 Florida beat visiting Columbia College 9-0 in a Friday game. Carlisle handed Harvard its second loss, winning 18-15 Navy beat West Virginia 32-0. Army was scored upon for the first time in six games, Chicago beat Cornell 6-0 Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss 21-0. Georgia beat Georgia Tech 5-0 Harvard beat Dartmouth 5-3, Minnesota beat Illinois 11-0 Chicago beat Wisconsin 5-0 Michigan and Nebraska 6-6 tie Carlisle won at Johns Hopkins, 29-6 Harvard and Yale played to 0-0 tie. Kansas travels to Missouri for a 3–3 tie in what is considered the first homecoming game. More than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, on Wednesday, November 29, in Savannah, Georgia and Auburn played to a 0-0 tie. Penn State won at Pittsburgh 3-0, to finish the season 8-0-1, Carlisle closed its season with a 12-6 win at Brown. The last five-point American football touchdown was scored on January 1,1912, in a game played in Havana, mississippi A&M College defeated the Club Atletico de Cuba, 12-0. The following is a incomplete list of conference standings, The consensus All-America team included, Rushing yards leader, Jim Thorpe, Carlisle,899 Rushing avg. leader
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1909 College Football All-America Team
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The 1909 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1909 college football season. The only selector for the 1909 season who has recognized as official by the National Collegiate Athletic Association is Walter Camp. Many other sports writers and newspapers also selected All-America teams in 1909, the United Press and The Atlanta Constitution both published their own consensus All-America teams based on their aggregating the first-team picks of a number of selectors. A total of nine players from the 1909 Yale Bulldogs football team were selected as first-team All-Americans by at least one selector. The Yale players selected as All-Americans were Hamlin Andrus, Carroll Cooney, Ted Coy, William Goebel, Henry Hobbs, John Kilpatrick, Theodore Lilley, Walter S. Logan, the 1909 Yale team was undefeated and outscored its opponents 209 to 0. Only two players from schools outside of the Ivy League have been recognized as consensus first-team All-Americans and they are Albert Benbrook of Michigan and John McGovern of Minnesota. The only individual who has recognized as an official selector by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 1909 season is Walter Camp. Accordingly, the NCAAs official listing of Consensus All-America Selections mirrors Camps first-team picks, Camp 1909 All-America team was dominated by players from the East, with nine of his eleven picks coming from Ivy League schools, including six from his own alma mater, Yale. Camps All-Americans for 1909 included, Hamlin Andrus, Andrus was a guard for Yale. His father, John Emory Andrus, was a U. S, Benbrook played at the guard position for Michigan. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971 and he weighed over 200 pounds, was considered huge for his time, and was known as a dominating force due to his exceptional quickness. Cooney played at the position for Yale. He later ran a dance orchestra in the 1920s. Coy played at the fullback and halfback positions for Yale and he 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 and its selection for 1909 was Coy who led an undefeated Yale team that outscored its opponents, 209–0. Fish played at the position for Harvard. He later served from 1920 to 1945 in the United States House of Representatives where he was an outspoken isolationist, anti-Communist and he gained notoriety again in 1911 when he eloped with the daughter of John Emory Andrus, who was reported to be the richest man in Congress. The secret wedding resulted in coverage in newspapers from Boston to Baltimore
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1910 College Football All-America Team
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The 1910 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1910 college football season. The only selector for the 1910 season who has recognized as official by the National Collegiate Athletic Association is Walter Camp. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910, the magazine Leslies Weekly attempted to develop a consensus All-American by polling 16 football experts and aggregating their votes. Others who selected All-Americans in 1911 include The New York Times, The New York Sun, the 1910 Harvard Crimson football team compiled a record of 9–0–1 and outscored opponents 161 to 5. Harvard allowed only one team to score a point and played Yale to a 0–0 tie, a total of eight Harvard players were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector. They are Hamilton Corbett, Robert Fisher, Richard Plimpton Lewis, Robert Gordon McKay, Wayland Minot, Lawrence Dunlap Smith, Percy Wendell, only three players from schools outside of the Ivy League were selected as consensus first-team All-Americans. They are Albert Benbrook and Stanfield Wells from Michigan and James Walker of Minnesota, the only individual who has been recognized as an official selector by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 1910 season is Walter Camp. Accordingly, the NCAAs official listing of Consensus All-America Selections mirrors Camps first-team picks, eight of Camps first-team All-Americans in 1910 played on teams from the Ivy League. The only players recognized by Camp from outside the Ivy League were Albert Benbrook and Stanfield Wells from Michigan, Camps first-team selections for 1910 were, Albert Benbrook, guard from Michigan. Benbrook was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971 and he weighed over 200 pounds, was considered huge for his time, and was known as a dominating force due to his exceptional quickness. Cozens was one of the first of the roving centers, in the 1910 game between Penn and the Haskell Indian School, Cozens intercepted a pass and returned it 80 yards for a touchdown. He was also the catcher for the Penn baseball team, after graduating from Penn, Cozens was a football coach at Carnegie Tech. Fisher later coached Harvard from 1919 to 1925 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973, kilpatrick played at the end position for Yale. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955 and he later ran Madison Square Garden for more than 25 years and oversaw the operations of the New York Rangers from 1934 to 1960. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960, McKay later served as the commander of the 305th Infantry Machine Gun Division, known as Death, during World War I. Leroy Mercer, fullback for Penn, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955, talbot was also a sprinter for Princetons track team. Sprackling was inducted into the College Football of Fame in 1964, Walker later became an orthopedic surgeon. Though known principally as an end, Wells was Michigans first forward passer of note and he threw two passes to help Michigan win the Western Conference championship against Minnesota in 1910
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1912 College Football All-America Team
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The 1912 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1912 college football season. The only selector for the 1912 season who has recognized as official by the National Collegiate Athletic Association is Walter Camp. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1912, one writer, Louis A. Dougher, published a Composite Eleven in the Washington Times which consisted of his aggregating the first-team picks of 23 selectors. The Harvard Crimson football team of 1912 finished the season with a perfect 10-0 record, a total of 10 Harvard players were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector. They are Charles Brickley, Gerard Driscoll, Sam Felton, Henry Burchell Gardner, Harvey Hitchcock, Huntington Hardwick, Francis Joseph OBrien, Stan Pennock, Bob Storer, only two players from schools outside of the Ivy League were selected as consensus first-team All-Americans. They are Bob Butler from Wisconsin and Jim Thorpe from Carlisle, the only individual who has been recognized as an official selector by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 1912 season is Walter Camp. Accordingly, the NCAAs official listing of Consensus All-America Selections mirrors Camps first-team picks, nine of Camps first-team All-Americans in 1912 played on teams from the Ivy League. The only two players recognized by Camp from outside the Ivy League were Jim Thorpe from the Carlisle School, Camps first-team All-Americans in 1912 included, Douglas Bomeisler, end from Yale, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Charles Brickley, halfback for Harvard, led Harvard to a perfect 9–0 record in 1912. and later served as the football coach at Johns Hopkins, Boston College. Bob Butler, tackle from Wisconsin, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972, Camp said of Butler, He was powerful, active, and excellent at sizing up plays, good at blocking his man, and dangerous in his breaking through. George Crowther, quarterback at Brown, nicknamed Kid because he weighed between 130 and 135 pounds while playing at Brown, wesley Englehorn, tackle for Dartmouth, later served as head coach at Washington State. Sam Felton, end for Harvard, was considered one of the best punters in the country, hank Ketcham, center for Yale, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968. Leroy Mercer, fullback for Penn, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955, Stan Pennock, guard from Harvard, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Jim Thorpe, halfback for Carlisle, inducted into both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame and he won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics, but had the medals taken back for violations of amateurism rules. By 1912, there was a proliferation of newspapers, sports writers, coaches, recognizing the difficulties faced by any single person who could only watch one game per week, some began to seek better methodologies for selecting a true consensus All-America team. One writer, Louis A. Dougher of the Washington Times published a Consensus Team which he arrived at by aggregating the picks made by 23 newspapers, writers, coaches and football experts. The 23 All-America teams aggregated by Dougher included those picked by Walter Camp, for example, five of the eleven players identified by Dougher as consensus picks were overlooked by Camp. They are, Robert Treat Paine Storer, Storer was a tackle at Harvard
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1913 College Football All-America Team
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The 1913 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1913 college football season. The only two selectors who have recognized as official selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 1913 season are Walter Camp. Camps All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, the INS was founded in 1909 by William Randolph Hearst, and its sports editor Frank G. Menke selected the INS All-America team. Other sports writers, newspapers, coaches selecting All-America teams in 1913 included Harpers Weekly, Fielding H. Yost, in its official record book, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or INS as consensus All-Americans. Using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 15 as consensus All-Americans for the 1913 season, the consensus players are identified in bold on the main list below. Camp and INS unanimously selected the seven players as All-Americans, Charles Brickley. Brickley later became a player and coach in the years of professional football. He was the coach of the New York Brickley Giants in the first year of play in the National Football League, in 1928, he was convicted on four counts of larceny and bucketing orders from customers of his stock brokerage firm. John Babe Brown, guard for Navy, Brown was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as part of the first group of inductees. During World War II, Admiral John Brown oversaw submarine operations in the South Pacific and he later served as athletic director and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. Craig was also one of the best hurdlers in the country, breaking the world record in the high hurdles in 1911. His older brother, Ralph Craig, won medals in the 100. Paul Des Jardien, center for Chicago, at six feet, five inches in height, but weighing only 190 pounds, Des Jardien was nicknamed Shorty. He led the 1913 Chicago Maroons football team to an undefeated 7–0 record and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955, Des Jardien was a multi-sport star who also briefly played professional baseball as a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in 1916. Hogsett was the captain of the 1913 Dartmouth Big Green football team compiled a 7–1–0 record and outscored opponents 218 to 79, including victories over Princeton. Mahan was selected as a first-team All-American three consecutive years from 1913 to 1915 and he was widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the first 50 years of the sport and was named by Jim Thorpe as the greatest football player of all time. In 1951, Mahan was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as part of the first group of inductees, louis A. Merrilat, end for Army. Merrilat was a first-team All-American in both 1913 and 1914 and he was severely wounded by airplane machine gun fire during World War I, but went on to play in the NFL as a 33-year-old rookie in 1925
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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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Wilton S. Farnsworth
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Wilton Simpson Bill Farnsworth was an American sports writer, editor, and boxing promoter. He worked for William Randolph Hearsts newspapers from 1904 to 1937 and he was the sports editor of Hearsts New York Evening Journal or New York American from 1914 to 1937. He also worked for shorter stints on Hearsts Boston American and Atlanta Georgian, from 1937 to 1944, he was a boxing promoter in partnership with Mike Jacobs. Farnsworth was born in 1885 in Millbury, Massachusetts, at the time of the 1900 United States Census, Farnsworth was living with his parents, Wilton Grafton Farnsworth and Annie Farnsworth in Millbury. His fathers occupation was listed as a landlord, Farnsworth began his career as a journalist working for the Evening Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1904, he was hired by the Boston American, a newly formed newspaper that was part of William Randolph Hearsts chain of newspapers, in 1907, Farnwsworth moved to New York to work for Hearsts New York Evening Journal. In October 1908, Farnsworth established himself when he exposed a plot to bribe umpire Bill Klem in connection with a game between the New York Giants and Chicago Cubs. He spent three months covering the story, in 1912, Farnsworth was transferred to Atlanta as the sports editor of the Atlanta Georgian after it was acquired by Hearst. He returned to New York in 1914 as the editor of Hearsts morning newspaper. He also covered the New York Yankees after returning from Atlanta to New York, by the early 1920s, Farnsworth had moved from the American back to Hearsts evening newspaper, The New York Evening Journal, as sports editor. In 1922, Farnsworth hired Ford Frick as a baseball writer, Farnsworth continued to write during his time as an editor, and his column was published under the title Sidewalks of New York. Farnsworth was a friend of New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, starting in 1923, Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts which raised more than $1 million for Hearsts Free Milk Fund for Babies. Farnsworth served as the president and general manager of the organization. Farnsworth was married to Millicent de Freytas of Brookline, Massachusetts, at the time of the 1910 United States Census, Farnsworth was living in Manhattan with his wife Millicent and their two children, Marjorie and Wilton. His occupation was listed as the editor of a newspaper, in a draft registration card completed in September 1918, Farnsworth indicated that he was employed by W. R. Hearst as an editor in New York. At the time of the 1920 United States Census, Farnsworth was living in Queens with his wife and his occupation was again listed as a newspaper editor. Farnsworth suffered a stroke while attending a match at Madison Square Garden on November 10,1944. He remained hospitalized at St. Clares Hospital in New York where he died in July 1945, a requiem mass was held for Farnsworth at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan
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Henry L. Williams
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Henry Lane Williams was an American football player and coach. He served as the football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1891. Williamss Minnesota Golden Gophers teams won eight Western Conference—now known as the Big Ten Conference—titles and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951. He then moved to Philadelphia where he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine while he coached football, in 1900, Williams was hired as the head football coach at the University of Minnesota, where he invented the Minnesota shift. His Minnesota Golden Gophers were Big Ten Conference champions eight times, Williams had a 136–33–11 record at Minnesota. His winning percentage is the highest of any Gopher football coach to date with the exception of Wallie Winter who went 6–0 in his only season 1893, in 1903, the Gophers went 14–0–1. Their lone tie came against Fielding H. Yosts Michigan Wolverines, after the contest, the Wolverines left behind their water jug at Northrop Field, which gave rise to the Little Brown Jug, one of the oldest and most famous college football trophies. Williams was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame with the class in 1951. Williams Arena, the venue for Minnesota basketball, was renamed in his honor after a remodeling in the 1950s. Williams coaching tree includes, Bernie Bierman Gil Dobie Clark Shaughnessy Henry L. Williams at the College Football Hall of Fame Henry L. Williams at the College Football Data Warehouse
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The Christian Science Monitor
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It was started in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As of 2011, the print circulation was 75,052, the Monitor is a newspaper that covers international and United States current events. The paper includes a daily feature on The Home Forum page. In 2008 the Monitor discontinued its print version to focus on web-based publishing, replacing its daily print edition with a weekly news magazine with an international focus. Since late 2013, the Editor-in-chief has been Marshall Ingwerson, despite its name, the Monitor does not claim to be a religious-themed paper, and says it does not promote the doctrine of its patron church. However, at its founder Eddys request, a religious article has appeared in every issue of the Monitor. Eddy also required the inclusion of Christian Science in the papers name, in addition, Joseph Pulitzers New York World was consistently critical of Eddy, and this, along with a derogatory article in McClures, furthered Eddys decision to found her own media outlet. These descriptions carry fears to many minds, to be depicted in some time upon the body. Eddy declared that the Monitors mission should be to no man. The Monitor was for several decades published in form but in 1975 switched to tabloid format. The papers overall circulation has ranged widely, from a peak of over 223,000 in 1970 and these developments also presaged administrative moves to scale back the print newspaper in favor of expansions into radio, a magazine, shortwave broadcasting, and television. Expenses, however, rapidly outpaced revenues, contradicting predictions by church directors, on the brink of bankruptcy, the board was forced to close the broadcast programs in 1992. The paper has been known for avoiding sensationalism, producing a brand of nonhysterical journalism. Monitor staff have been the recipients of seven Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2002,1950, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Edmund Stevens, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, This Is Russia Uncensored. 1967, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, R. John Hughes, For his thorough reporting of Indonesias attempted Transition to the New Order in 1965,1968, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Howard James, for his series of articles, Crisis in the Courts. 1969, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Robert Cahn, for his inquiry into the future of the United States national parks and the methods that may help to preserve them. 1996, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, David Rohde, for his persistent on-site reporting of the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica Genocide. S, senate Committee led by Norm Coleman of personally profiting from corruption within the United Nations Oil-for-Food program. The Monitor investigated the matter, concluding that the documents were almost certainly forgeries, in 2006, Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad, and released safely after 82 days
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Ted Coy
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Edward Harris Ted Coy was an American football player and coach. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was selected as the fullback on Walter Camps All-Time All-America team. He also served as Yales head football coach in 1910, in 1951, Coy was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class. Coy was the son of the first headmaster at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut and he then enrolled at Yale University in 1906. While attending Yale, Coy was also secretly a member of The Yale Whiffenpoofs, Coy was described as a song lover with a good ear and a nice tenor voice. To cover the heresy of his joining the Whiffenpoofs, he was given the title Perpetual Guest and he also became a member of Skull and Bones. Coy became recognized as one of the greatest football players in the history of the game and it was reportedly a familiar sight when Ted would burst through an enemy defense, his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband. George Trevor once described Coy as a figure, with a pug nose. He ran with a high-knee action and he stood 6 feet tall and weighed 195 pounds. Coy was named a first-team All-American in all three years in which he played varsity football at Yale, during those three seasons, Yale lost only one game, a 4–0 loss to Harvard in 1908. As a senior in 1909, Coy led the Yale team to an undefeated 10–0 record, Coy missed the first four games of the 1909 season after undergoing an appendectomy, but he returned to lead Yale to victories over Army, Princeton, and Harvard. In December 2008, Sports Illustrated undertook to identify the individuals who would have awarded the Heisman Trophy in college footballs early years. Coy was selected as the would-be Heisman winner for the 1909 season, the National Football Foundation did the same, and also chose Coy in 1909. Coy was selected by Walter Camp as the fullback for his All-time All-America team and he was listed third-team on Outings All-time All-American. Leland Devore once said Jim Thorpe smashes into the line like a pair of Coys, in the fall of 1910, Coy returned to New Haven as Yales football coach. The 1910 team finished with a record of 6–2–2, including a tie with Vanderbilt and it was the first time Yale had been held scoreless at home, and the souths first great showing against an Eastern power. It is needless to say that I was greatly surprised and disappointed at the result, but for all that, I have no excuses to make. After a year coaching Yales football team, Coy began a career as a stock broker
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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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Jim Thorpe
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James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a medal for his home country. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football, professional baseball, in 1983,30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee restored his Olympic medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, and attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School, after his Olympic success in 1912, which included a record score in the decathlon, he added a victory in the All-Around Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union. In 1913, Thorpe signed with the New York Giants, Thorpe joined the Canton Bulldogs American football team in 1915, helping them win three professional championships, he later played for six teams in the National Football League. He played as part of several all-American Indian teams throughout his career, from 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association, which became the NFL in 1922. He played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression and he struggled to earn a living after that, working several odd jobs. He suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and he was married three times and had eight children, before suffering from heart failure and dying in 1953. Thorpe has received accolades for his athletic accomplishments. The Associated Press named him the greatest athlete from the first 50 years of the 20th century, a Pennsylvania town was named in his honor and a monument site there is the site of his remains, which were the subject of legal action. Thorpe was portrayed in the 1951 film Jim Thorpe – All-American, information about Thorpes birth, name and ethnic background varies widely. He was baptized Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe in the Catholic Church, Thorpe was born in Indian Territory, but no birth certificate has been found. He was generally considered to have born on May 22,1887, near the town of Prague. Hope this will clear up the inquiries as to my birthplace, however, most biographers believe that he was born on May 22,1887, as that is what is listed on his baptismal certificate. Bellemont was a community, now disappeared, on the line between Pottawatomie and Lincoln Counties. While the town of Prague, Lincoln County, now claims to be the birthplace of Thorpe, All his personal references were either Shawnee or Pott County. The Sac and Fox agency is in Stroud, Lincoln County, Thorpes parents were both of mixed-race ancestry. His father, Hiram Thorpe, had an Irish father and a Sac and his mother, Charlotte Vieux, had a French father and a Potawatomi mother, a descendant of Chief Louis Vieux
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Leland Devore
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Leland Swarts Devore was an American football tackle and military officer. He played college football with Army and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1911, Devore grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia and was the son of J. H. Devore, a prominent West Virginia broker. He graduated from Wheeling High School and enrolled at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Devore, who was 6 feet,4 inches tall, and weighed 225 pounds, played at the tackle position for Armys football team while attending West Point. In 1911, Devore was selected as a first-team All-American, D Devore was also selected as the captain of the 1912 Army Black Knights football team. Devore was also the boxing champion at the academy, the silver medalist in heavyweight wrestling. Devore was commissioned as a lieutenant in the infantry and accompanied Gen. John J. Pershing on the Pancho Villa Expedition into Mexico in 1916. The expedition marked the first use of motorized transport trucks and cars by the U. S. Army, Devore served as an infantry officer in France during World War I where he was wounded. Devore spent his career in the Army and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and he died in 1939 at Washington, D. C. Devore was married to Genevieve Devore, and the couple had a son, Leland S. Devore, Jr
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Sanford White
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Sanford Brownell Sammy White was an American football and baseball player. He played college football for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1910 to 1911 and was a consensus first-team All-American football player in 1911 and he scored every point for the Tigers in their 1911 victories over Harvard and Yale, leading the team to the eastern college football championship. White also played baseball and basketball at Princeton, as team captain, he led Princeton to a baseball championship in 1911. White was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1888 and he attended Fall River High School and then preparatory school at Exeter in New Hampshire. White played both baseball and football for Exeter, White enrolled at Princeton University in 1908. At Princeton, he became a star, competing in football, baseball, basketball. In December 1911, he also tried out for the Princeton ice hockey team. During his sophomore year, he did not play football and played baseball and basketball. He was selected as the captain of the team as a junior. White reportedly considered baseball his true love, disliked football, having been a substitute on the 1910 football team, he became a starter at left end for the 1911 Princeton Tigers football team. He led the team to the 1911 eastern college football championship, the 1911 Princeton team compiled an 8-0-2 record and outscored opponents 179 to 15. In Princetons 8-6 victory over Harvard on November 4,1911 and he blocked a field goal attempt by Harvard and then picked up the loose ball and returned it 95 yards for a touchdown. Later in the game, Harvards quarterback caught a punt deep in Harvards territory, White reportedly hurled himself at the Harvard man in a fierce tackle and threw him back over the goal line for a safety that won the game for Princeton. Two weeks after the Harvard game, White played his football game for Princeton against Yale. Princeton had not beaten Yale since 1903, and the game was played at Yale Field in front of a crowd of 33,000, Princeton won the game 6-3 in large part due to the play of White. White recovered five Yale fumbles on a field of ankle-deep mud and he returned one of those fumbles 65 yards for a touchdown for Princetons only score. The Boston Globe led its story on the game with a front page headline, the New York Times reported on Whites long run as follows, He can run, White can. He followed the ball like a hound follows the fox, ever ready to scoop it up and run with all the speed in his long, lithe limbs
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Douglas Bomeisler
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Douglass M. Bo Bomeisler was an American college football player. He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1910 to 1912 and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Bomeisler was born in Brooklyn, New York and he graduated from what is now called Poly Prep Country Day School where he played football. He enrolled at Yale University where he played for the varsity football team in 1910,1911 and 1912. Playing at the end position, Bomeisler developed a reputation as a fast and powerful player, a hard and deadly tackler, and the strongest man on the Yale team. In his first year of eligibility to play for Yales varsity football team, Bomeisler was injured in the game of the 1910 football season. Early in the 1911 season, Bomeisler injured his shoulder in the Harvard game and he injured his knee in Yales 1911 game against Princeton. To allow him to continue to play, Bomeisler fabricated a knee brace from leather, after playing through multiple injuries, Bomeisler was selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp and Charles Chadwick. He was also named to the Football Honor List for 1911, in selecting Bomeisler as an All-American, Camp wrote that Bomeisler was powerful, thickset, fast, a terror to his opponents. In May 1912, Bomeisler was overlooked by Yales three senior secret societies -- Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and Wolfs Head, in September 1912, Bomeisler returned to the Yale football team despite his injuries. A profile of the Yale team published early in the 1912 season noted that the Yale coaches were not working him very hard in the part of the season to avoid aggravating his shoulder injury. Because of his injuries, he became known as the King of the Hard Luck Players. A syndicated newspaper report published in November 1912 noted, The crown of hard luck king certainly belongs to Douglass Bomeisler, the star Yale end. Injuries kept him out of the majority of games last season and this season he was still more unfortunate, being laid out in the Holy Cross game and not getting into shape until the Princeton game. In November 1912, newspapers reported, All Yale men were enthusiastic over the indicators that the 188 pound whirlwind Bomeisler would be at end, though Yale lost to Harvard in 1912 by a score of 20-0, Bomeisler was a standout in the game. The entire Yale defense seemed to rest on two players and when Bomeisler was taken out in the second period the crimson offense again became very aggressive. He was out of the fray most of the year with an injured shoulder. Besides these things, both Bomeisler and Felton are stars at taking forward passes, despite the injuries, Bomeisler was selected as a first-team All-American for a second time after the 1912 season
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Stanfield Wells
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Stanfield McNeill Wells was an All-American football player for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909-1911. He was the first in a line of All-Americans to come out of Massillon Washington High School. Though known principally as an end, Wells was Michigans first forward passer of note and he threw two passes to help Michigan win the Western Conference championship against Minnesota in 1910. He played professional football after college and wrote a chapter of a book on playing the end position and he later became the manager of an insurance company in Nashville, Tennessee. Wells attended Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio and he played left halfback in high school and graduated in 1907. His high school coach Fritz Merwin was a volunteer who helped the players get organized, in 1964, the school honored its first ten All-Americans by creating an All-American Hall of Fame at the school. At the time of the ceremony, Wells was unable to attend. In the letter, Wells recalled the days of football in Massillon. After all the fall of 1906 is a far piece back and that was my senior year and I was a ‘new boy’, having just moved to Massillon that summer from the wide open spaces of South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska. Well the only preparation necessary was to take an old pair of shoes down to the cobbler and have some cleats nailed on them. I think the association must have had some football pants, but I do remember distinctly that you had to furnish your own stockings. Put these on and you were in business, I can’t believe that there were more than 11 candidates out because I made the team the first afternoon. Nor did we have a regular coach, a boy named Fritz Merwin, who I think had played the year before was our coach. If you ask me, he’s the one whose picture ought to be hanging up there someplace. He didn’t get paid anything, and if a coach ever had a squad of 11 nit-wits. But he was out there every afternoon, early and late teaching us fundamentals instead of fancy razzle-dazzle plays, and in the end it paid off because we won a few games. I can’t remember who we beat, but I do recall, painfully even after this lapse of time, in 1909, he started seven games at right tackle on at team that was 6-1, outscored opponents 115-34, and lost its only game to Notre Dame, 11-3. In 1910, Michigan went 3-0-3 and Wells started the first three games at tackle and the final three at right end. ”In December 1910, two Wolverines, Wells and Albert Benbrook, were named first-team All-Americans by Walter Camp
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Dexter Very
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Very was an American college football player the Penn State Nittany Lions football team of Pennsylvania State University. Very started at end for the Nittany Lions in every game from 1909 to 1912. During that timespan, Penn State was undefeated in 1909,1911 and 1912, Very was elected as the teams captain in 1911, and helped the Nittany Lions defeat the Penn Quakers, for its first victory over Penn in 18 years. That game he stripped the Quakers Ray Mercer of the football, in 1912, Very scored nine touchdowns in eight games. He never wore a helmet while playing, and was also a member of the wrestling program. After college he worked as a representative in Pittsburgh and also worked as a football official. He officiated the 1927 Georgia vs. Yale football game, on January 2,1933, Very officiated the Rose Bowl. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976, Penn State Nittany Lions football under Bill Hollenback Dexter Very at the College Football Hall of Fame
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Busty Ashbaugh
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Russell G. Busty Ashbaugh, Sr. was a celebrated football player at Brown University who went on to coach competitive teams at South High School, in Youngstown, Ohio. He played an important role in the formation of future coaches, including collegiate legends such as Dike Beede. Ashbaugh was born in the hub of Youngstown, to W. N. His father served as a clerk for the citys Board of Education for 40 years, Ashbaugh gained early recognition as a football standout at Youngstowns Rayen School. Upon graduation from Rayen, he went on to Brown University, Ashbaugh played for Brown between 1909 and 1914. After graduating from Brown, Ashbaugh returned to his hometown and played professionally for the Youngstown Patricians, in 1914, Ashbaugh replaced Perle Denman as coach of South High School, and as his obituary notes, the team started to make gridiron history. During Ashbaughs tenure, South High teams scored 135 wins while suffering only 36 defeats and his coaching career would be interrupted only briefly by World War I, when Ashbaugh served as a gunner in a machine gun unit. He returned to his position in 1919. While dividing his time coaching and teaching, he also studied law at Youngstowns YMCA night school and was admitted to the bar in 1922. Beyond his contributions as a mentor to All-American football players, Ashbaugh trained many coaches who went on to lead winning high school, Ashbaugh retired from coaching in 1938, and was replaced by John McFee. Following his retirement from coaching, Ashbaugh retained his position as a teacher at South High School. In the Youngstown area, his contributions to coaching were widely recognized and his obituary notes, More than 200 former South High footballers, members and coaches of opposing teams attended. Mr. Ashbaugh was presented with a television set, on the afternoon of November 20,1953, Ashbaugh suffered a massive heart attack, as he was sitting in a chair preparing to follow the afternoon football games on radio and television. His funeral services were held at the Shriver-Allison South Side Funeral Home. Besides his wife, the former Thelma Ross, whom he married on February 5,1919, Ashbaugh left behind his son, Russell Jr. of Edwardburg, Michigan, a brother W. B. of Youngstown, and two grandchildren. A daughter, Mrs. Thelma Action, died in 1950, Ashbaughs obituary described him as follows. a great athlete, Mr. Football to the Youngstown district and, in his coaching days, one of the nations outstanding scholastic football tutors. In addition, Busty Ashbaugh trained celebrated coaches such as Wes Fesler and Dwight Dike Beede
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Frederick L. Conklin
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Frederick L. Conklin was an American football player and coach, medical doctor and naval officer. He played football for Fielding H. Yosts University of Michigan teams from 1909 to 1911 and was selected as an All-Western player in 1911. He spent 32 years as an officer in the U. S. Navy, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral after serving in World War I, a native of Manchester, Michigan, Conklin attended Ann Arbor High School before enrolling at University of Michigan. He played at the end and right guard and left tackle positions for Fielding H. Yosts Michigan football teams from 1909 to 1911. He was also elected captain of the 1911 Michigan team, at the end of 1911 season, Conklin was selected as an All-Western player and named to Outing magazines Honor List as one of the four best players at the left end position in the country. After completing his education at Michigan, Conklin enrolled in medical school at Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1914, in September 1914, Conklin enlisted in the U. S. Navy and was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade. He attended a six-week Naval training school in Washington, D. C. to qualify as a Navy surgeon and he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant upon the U. S. entry into World War I in April 1918. Had this ratio been maintained, the World War would have terminated in two years because of the lack of manpower. The Germans lost more than 1,000,000 soldiers killed in combat during the first thirty months, therefore, the military value of application of the principles of modern medicine cannot too highly be evaluated. After the end of World War I, Conklin continued to serve in the Navy at various naval hospitals and he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in July 1921, commander in October 1931, and captain in 1939. At the time of the U. S. entry into World War II, Conklin served as the officer in command of the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Chelsea. He was assigned to duty and set up a mobile hospital in New Caledonia one month after embarking from San Diego. He received the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and he also served on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in July 1945 as liaison officer of the Fifth Marine Division assigned to the Sixth Army for the planned invasion of Japan. On June 12,1944, Conklin presented Lt. John F. Kennedy with the Navy, at the end of World War II, Conklin was placed in command of the U. S Navy special hospital in Palm Beach, Florida. In September 1949, Conklin retired from the Navy at age 63 and he was then hired as the head of the Berrien County Hospital at Berrien Center, Michigan. Conklin was credited with having performed miracles in bringing the hospital up to standards considered normal of first run institutions, Conklin resigned the post in 1953 after complaining that he could not conduct a good operation unless he a free hand in hiring staff and control of medical operations
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Ed Hart
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Edward J. Hart was an American football tackle. He was a consensus All-American in 1911, Hart played high school football at Phillips Exeter Academy. In his last game at Phillips Exeter he suffered a dislocation in his neck when he ran into a goalpost and this resulted in Hart having to wear a neckbrace for his first three years of college football at Princeton University. He removed the brace in 1911 and he was the captain of the Princeton Tigers football team in 1910 and 1911. Hart was a captain in the United States Army in World War I and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954
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John Brown (American football, born 1891)
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John Herbert Babe Brown, Jr. was a vice admiral in the United States Navy during World War II and an American football player. Brown was born in Canton, Pennsylvania, in 1891 and he attended the United States Military Academy where he played college football. He was selected as a consensus first-team guard on the 1913 College Football All-America Team and he accounted for all of Navys points in a 6 to 0 victory in the 1913 Army–Navy Game. He graduated in 1914 with the rank of ensign, Brown later served as president of the National Football Foundation and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. He was also selected in 1951 by a board of Navy football authorities as the greatest player in Navy football history, during World War I, Brown commanded the submarines USS C-2 and USS G-4. Subsequently Brown commanded some other submarines in the interwar period, in October 1930, Brown commanded the USS V-5 submarine when it set a U. S. Navy record by diving to a depth of 332 feet. He also attended the Naval War College in 1940, during World War II, Brown rose to the rank of vice admiral and served as deputy commander of Americas submarine force in the Pacific theatre. In the early 1950s, he was the commandant of the Fourth Naval District based in Philadelphia and he served a total of 43 years in the Navy before retiring in 1954. He died in 1963 at age 71 at his home in Middletown, John Brown at the College Football Hall of Fame John Brown at Find a Grave
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Joseph Duff
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He played guard for Princeton and was selected for Walter Camps All-American eleven in 1911. After graduating from Princeton, Duff became an assistant football coach at the school for the 1912 football season and he served as the football coach at the University of Pittsburgh in 1913 and 1914 and graduated from the School of Law in 1915. He served in the U. S. military in World War I and he went to France as a private in a machine gun unit and was promoted to the rank of a lieutenant. He was killed in action in France on October 10,1918
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Alfred L. Buser
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Alfred Leo Buser, nicknamed Al Buser, was an American football player and coach. Buser played college football for the University of Wisconsin, and was recognized as an All-American and he later became the fourth head coach of the Florida Gators football team that represents the University of Florida. Buser was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1888 and he attended Madison High School, where he was a stand-out high school football player and track & field athlete, and graduated in 1907. After graduating from school, Buser attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Buser played tackle for the Wisconsin Badgers football team from 1908 to 1911, as a senior, he was elected team captain for the 1911 football season. The 1911 Badgers finished 5–1–1—their sole loss was a 6–0 edging by the Chicago Maroons and he lettered three years in football, and once in track, as a shot-putter. Buser graduated from Wisconsin in 1912, and served as the director of athletics of the Wisconsin athletic association during 1913, Buser married the former Leila W. Mathews that same year. From 1917 to 1919, Buser was the coach of the Florida Gators football team that represented the University of Florida in Gainesville. Early expectations were high for Busers first Gators team in 1917, during his three seasons leading the Gators, Buser compiled a 7–8 record, including the one-game 1918 season shortened by the 1918 influenza pandemic and World War I. Buser was also the athletic director and the professor in charge of its physical education department. After an improved 5–3 season in 1919, Buser was replaced by William G. Kline, Buser was later the athletic director for Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was also a member of the Iron Cross Society, the universitys leadership honorary, Buser died in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1956. Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault, The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, an Oral History of Floridas Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida. McCarthy, Kevin M. Fightin Gators, A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, mcEwen, Tom, The Gators, A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama. Proctor, Samuel, & Wright Langley, Gator History, A Pictorial History of the University of Florida, South Star Publishing Company, Gainesville, alfred Leo Al Buser at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Hank Ketcham (American football)
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Henry Holman Hank Ketcham was an American college football player who was a center and guard positions for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University. Ketcham was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American in 1911 and 1912 and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968. Ketcham was born in Englewood, New Jersey, after attending the Hotchkiss School, he enrolled at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He played every game for Yales varsity football team in 1911,1912 and he helped lead Yale to a 7–2–1 record in 1911 and a 7–1–1 record in 1912 and was a consensus All-American in both of those years. In 1913, Ketcham was selected as the captain of Yales football team, in a departure from past tradition at Yale, Ketcham appointed Howard Jones as the schools first salaried football coach. Ketcham later recalled, I played every varsity game for three years and was out only once for a slight injury … I am generally credited with having developed the term roving center. Except for todays platoon systems, football hasnt changed materially and we had the on-side kick, the ball was a bit larger in circumference and the drop kick was more popular than the place kick
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Franklin C. Sibert
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Franklin Cummings Sibert was a United States Army general. During World War II, Sibert was originally the commander of the 6th Infantry Division but was promoted to command the X Corps of General Walter Kruegers US Sixth Army and his Corps took part in the landing operations of the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. Sibert was born on January 3,1891, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as a son of future Major general, William L. Sibert and he attended the United States Military Academy and graduated on June 12,1912. He was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the infantry on the same date, one year later, Sibert married Helen Mildred Rogers on March 4,1913. During World War I, Sibert served with American Expeditionary Force in France, after the War, Sibert attended the Infantry School at Fort Benning in 1924, the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in 1925 and Army War College in 1929. In 1939, Sibert spent some time in Michigan as a Commanding officer of Fort Wayne or Camp Custer. In September 1941 Sibert was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and was appointed to the staff of Lieutenant general Joseph W. Stilwell, Sibert accompanied Stillwell in the retreat from Burma in 1942. Sibert was then appointed the Commanding officer of the 6th Infantry Division and he replaced major general Durward S. Wilson in this capacity. He was also promoted to the rank of Major General on March 11,1942 and he participated in the New Guinea and Philippines campaigns. After commanding the 6th Infantry Division, he commanded the US X Corps, after his retirement, he and his wife lived in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, until his death on June 24,1980. Franklin Cummings Sibert at Arling Cemetery site 6th Infantry Division History Battle of Leyte
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Art Howe (American football)
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Arthur Howe was an American football player and coach, teacher, minister and university president. He played college football for Yale University from 1909 to 1911, was the quarterback of Yales 1909 national championship team and he was the head coach of the 1912 Yale football team. Howe was later ordained as a Presbyterian minister and taught at Eastern preparatory schools, from 1930 to 1940, he was the president of Hampton University. He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973, Howe was born in South Orange, New Jersey, in 1890. His father, Solomon Howe, was a Massachusetts native and was a dealer of dry goods. His mother, Mable Rose Howe, was a New York native, Howe played high school football at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey and at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. Howe enrolled at Yale University in 1908 and he played for the Yale Bulldogs football team as a quarterback from 1909 to 1911. As a sophomore in 1909, Howe led the team to a perfect 10–0 record, at the end of the 1909 season, Howe was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp. After another strong year in 1910, Howe was unanimously elected by his teammates as the captain of Yales 1911 football team, as a senior, he set a collegiate record by returning 18 kicks in a November 1911 game against Princeton. After the 1911 season, Howe was selected as the first-team All-American quarterback by Colliers Weekly, The New York Globe, W. S. Farnsworth, Dr. Henry L. Williams, and Charles Chadwick. At the end of December 1911, Howe agreed to return in the fall of 1912 as the head football coach. In his one year as coach, Howe led the 1912 Yale football team to a 7–1–1 record. 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. After leaving Yale, Howe enrolled at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and he graduated from the seminary in 1916 and became a Presbyterian minister. In June 1916, Howe was hired as a teacher and coach at the Loomis Institute in Windsor, in a draft registration card completed in June 1917, Howe indicated that he was living in Windsor, Connecticut, and was employed as the chaplain at the Loomis Institute. In approximately 1920, Howe left the Loomis School and joined the faculty of the Taft School in Watertown, Howe was a teacher and the chaplain at the Taft School through most of the 1920s. At the time of the 1920 United States Census, Howe was living in Watertown with his wife Margaret, Howes occupation at the time was listed as a professor at the Taft School. After leaving the Taft School, Howe became a professor of citizenship at Dartmouth College and he remained at Dartmouth from approximately 1929 to 1930
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Ray Morrison
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J. Ray Morrison was an American football and baseball player and a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the football coach at Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, Temple University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. Morrison was also the basketball coach at Vanderbilt for one season in 1918–19, tallying a mark of 8–2. Ray Morrison was born on February 28,1885 in Sugar Branch, soon after the family moved to McKenzie, Tennessee, where Morrison attended school. He also spent a year at McTyiere School for Boys, to achieve funds for college, Morrison worked on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River for a year. He played football as a prominent halfback and quarterback for Dan McGugins Vanderbilt football teams from 1908 to 1911 and he is considered one of the best quarterbacks in Vanderbilts long history. The team posted a 30–6–2 record during his four years, Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. He weighed some 155 to 159 pounds, the 1908 squad was hampered by a wealth of sophomores, which McGugin with the help of halfback Morrison led to a 7–2–1 campaign, derailed mostly by losses to Sewanee. The 1910 team fought defending national champion Yale to a tie on Yale Field. Yale coach Ted Coy called Morrison the greatest player I have seen in years, the Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South. Morrison won Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1912, Morrison first taught and was athletics director at Branham & Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill. Ray Morrison was the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football and he won just two games in two years from 1915 to 1916. Upon American entry into World War I, Morrison went to Fort Oglethorpe and he coached Vanderbilt in 1918 when McGugin left for the military, and led the Vanderbilt team to a 4–2 record. In 1919, Morrison spent a year at Gulf Coast Military Academy as athletics director, in 1920, Morrison returned to SMU. He notably brought the pass to the southwest during his time at SMU. Morrison was one of the first to not just on first down. Gerald Mann was one of his best passers and his teams earned the nickname the Flying Circus
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Shorty Miller
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Gene Shorty Miller was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974, Miller played quarterback at Penn State from 1910–1913, missing only one game during his tenure and amassing a 23-8-2 record. His short stature and stubby legs earned him the nickname The Meteroic Midget, Miller would go on to start all four seasons at Penn State, missing just one game. In 1913, he rushed for 250 yards against Carnegie Tech University — a Penn State single-game rushing record that lasted 68 years
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Percy Langdon Wendell
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Percy Langdon Bullet Wendell was an American football player and coach of football and basketball in the United States. He was born on July 16,1889 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Frank Thaxter Wendell and he attended the Roxbury Latin School and attended Harvard University from 1909 to 1913. He went on to two years of medical school. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972 and he was also the 16th head football coach for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and he held that position for three seasons, from 1925 until 1927. His overall coaching record at Lehigh was 5 wins,20 losses and this ranks him 17th at Lehigh in terms of total wins and 26th at Lehigh in terms of winning percentage. He died in 1932 at age 43, Percy Langdon Wendell at the College Football Hall of Fame Percy Langdon Wendell at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Dave Morey
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David Beale Morey was an American football and baseball player, coach of a number of sports, and college athletics administrator. He was an All-American football player for Dartmouth College in 1912, Morey coached football and baseball at the Lowell Technological Institute, Middlebury College, Auburn University, Fordham University, and Bates College. After leading small colleges to ties against college football powers Harvard and Yale, Morey was given the nickname, Morey was a native of Malden, Massachusetts. He played baseball and football, and also competed on the track team, in June 1909, Morey struck out 25 batters in a baseball game against Everett High School. Morey attended Dartmouth College where he played for three years each with the schools Dartmouth Big Green football and Dartmouth Big Green baseball teams and he was captain of Dartmouths baseball team during his senior year in 1913. Morey played right halfback for Dartmouths football team from 1910 to 1912, after the 1912 season, he was selected as a first-team All-American by W. J. MacBeth and a second-team All-American by Walter Camp. Morey graduated from Dartmouth in 1913 and was signed by Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics and he was a right-handed pitcher and a left-handed batter. He played in two games for the Athletics on July 4,1913 and July 17,1913 and he did not have any decisions and compiled an earned run average of 4.50. Morey also played minor league baseball for Worcester in 1914 and Manchester in 1915, in the fall of 1914, Morey returned to Dartmouth as the schools freshman football coach, working as an assistant to Frank Major Cavanaugh. He also worked for the American Felt Company in Boston and he also served briefly as the baseball coach for Boston University. From 1916 to 1917, Morey was the coach at Lowell Textile Institute. Following the entry of the United States into World War I, in 1919, Morey returned to Malden High School as the schools baseball coach. In July 1920, Morey was hired by Middlebury College in Middlebury, Morey was given the responsibility for developing the schools football team. In 1921, Morey took over as the head football coach. Over the next four years, Morey helped turn the program around, the most notable win during Moreys tenure at Middlebury was a 6–6 tie with Harvard in 1923, then one of the top football programs in the country. Two drop kicks by Middleburys Al Klevenow provided the scoring in the tie with Harvard, Morey took particular pride in the tie against Harvard, noting that Middlebury had a total male enrollment of 140 at the time. In 1924, Moreys Middlebury eleven outscored its opponents 254–44, won high-scoring honors among all of the Eastern football teams, Morey was also the coach of Middleburys baseball and basketball teams from 1921 to 1925. In February 1925, Morey announced his resignation as coach at Middlebury and he stated that his one and only reason for leaving Middlebury was the ill health of his wife, which could only be remedied by residence in a warmer client
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Robert Hogsett
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Robert M. Bob Hogsett was an American football player. He played college football for the Dartmouth Big Green football team from 1911 to 1913 and was the captain of the 1913 Dartmouth team and he was a consensus All-American football player in 1913, receiving first-team honors from both Walter Camp and the International News Service. Hogsett was the son of Thomas H. Hogsett, a lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio. Hogsett attended University School in Cleveland before enrolling at Dartmouth College and he was five feet, six inches tall, and weighed 156 pounds while playing football at Dartmouth
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James B. Craig
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Jimmy Craig was an All American football halfback and quarterback who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1911 to 1913. He was named an All-American in 1913 and he also served as the athletic director and head football coach at the University of Arkansas from 1919 to 1920. Craig was born in March 1893 in Detroit, Michigan and he was the son of William Craig, born in 1856, and Alice Craig, born in 1867. At the time of the 1900 U. S. Census, the family at that time consisted of William, identified as a capitalist, Alice, and sons Ralph, James, and William. Before Craig ever played a down for the Wolverines, he established himself as one of the top hurdlers in the country, in a meet against Cornell in March 1911, Craig broke the world indoor record running the 49-yard high hurdles in 5 1–5 seconds. And in 1912, Craig won the low competition in the 1912 Eastern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association. Craigs older brother, Ralph Craig, was also a star at the University of Michigan who went on to win the gold medals in the 100 and 200-meter events at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Craig debuted with the Michigan Wolverines football team in 1911, playing games at quarterback and halfback. In October 1911, Coach Fielding H. Yost worked with Craig as a quarterback, Yost reported in early October that he was attaining considerable success with Craig, but he was far from being a finished performer. Yost noted that Craig was diligent and he runs the team fast, the Wolverines finished the 1911 season with a 5–1–2 record. They started the season with convincing wins against and Case Institute of Technology, 24–0, Michigan Agricultural College, and Ohio State, 19–0, and narrowly beat Vanderbilt, 9–8. After starting the season 4–0, the Wolverines went 1–1–2 in their four games, including a loss to Cornell and ties with Syracuse. In the Syracuse game, Craig suffered an injury to his ribs after being tackled and was expected to be unable to play for an indefinite period. Despite the rib injury, Craig came back to lead the Wolverines to an 11–9 win over Pennsylvania two weeks later. News accounts at the time reported that the craftiness of Coach Yost, late in the game, Craig scored the winning touchdown on a double pass. In one of Yosts trick plays, Michigans interference started to the right, Craig dodged two tacklers, and sprinted 26 yards for a touchdown. The New York Times and referred to Craig as Michigans offensive and defensive hero in a clean, snappy, spectacular, in 1912, the Wolverines again got off to a 3–0 start with convincing wins over Case, Michigan Agricultural College, and Ohio State. After the first three games, the Syracuse Herald noted that according to all the reports from Ann Arbor, is tearing up the lines with ease
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Elmer Oliphant
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Elmer Quillen Catchy or Ollie Oliphant was an American football, basketball and track player and coach. He is one of the scorers in college football history. Oliphant also went on to play in the National Football League and he was born in Bloomfield, Indiana to Marion Elsworth Oliphant and Alice V. Quillen Oliphant in 1892. He began school in Bloomfield but the family moved to Washington, Elmer Oliphant transferred to Linton High School from Washington High School during his junior year. His father’s gristmill partner had absconded with $62,000 in company funds, the family moved back to the Linton area and he worked part-time in the coal mines to help with family finances. Although the teams weren’t called “The Miners” when he graduated from Linton in 1910 and that may be because he excelled as a catcher, outfielder and power hitter in baseball. It could also be because the dictionary has one meaning of catchy as “having the power to catch the attention. ”Supposedly one time he was playing center field for the Linton team, called a time-out, hurried to the cinder track. Then, he returned to his position in center field and the game continued, the Indiana Football Hall of Fame states that he was All-State End while at Linton High School. He scored a record of 60 points as Linton defeated rival Sullivan by a whopping 128–0 score. He was captain of the team and led the team to the State Championship for 1909–1910. That trophy won May 21,1910 and the Big Four Meet trophy won May 14,1910 are still in the case in the commons with Capt. Oliphant’s name engraved on them. Members of the team wore a diamond shape with a large “L” in the center on their shirts and this is still the only time Linton High School has had an Indiana State Championship. The track and football field area at Linton-Stockton High School was called Oliphant Field from at least the date the school was occupied in 1922 until 1980. He was selected as Indiana’s Finest Amateur Athlete by the Helms Foundation in 1958 and was selected for the FWAA Early-Day All-Time All-America Team in 1969 and he entered Purdue University, but not on a scholarship. Instead, he waited tables, carried laundry, stoked furnaces and he continued to develop strength and toughness by working as a coal miner during his summer vacations. He earned 7 official Varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball, an end on the football team as a freshman, he was a starting halfback for his final three seasons at the school and distinguished himself as a runner and kicker. In one game, he single-handedly beat Wisconsin by kicking a winning field goal with a broken ankle to give the Boilermakers a 3–0 victory. Only 5’7” and 174 pounds, he belied his build with outstanding speed, in football, he helped turn Purdues football into a winning program
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