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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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