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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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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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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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Collier's
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Colliers was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was initially launched as Colliers Once a Week, then changed in 1895 to Colliers Weekly, An Illustrated Journal, and finally shortened in 1905 to simply Colliers. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated January 4,1957, though a brief, as a result of Peter Colliers pioneering investigative journalism, Colliers established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. When attempts by various companies to sue Collier ended in failure, Peter F. Collier left Ireland for the U. S. at age 17. Although he went to a seminary to become a priest, he started work as a salesman for P. J. Kenedy. When Collier wanted to boost sales by offering books on a plan, it led to a disagreement with Kenedy. P. F. Collier & Son began in 1875, expanding into the largest subscription house in America with sales of 30 million books during the 1900–1910 decade. With the issued dated April 28,1888, Colliers Once a Week was launched as a magazine of fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news. It was sold with the biweekly Colliers Library of novels and popular books at bargain rates, by 1892, with a circulation climbing past the 250,000 mark, Colliers Once a Week was one of the largest selling magazines in the United States. The name was changed to Colliers Weekly, An Illustrated Journal in 1895, with an emphasis on news, the magazine became a leading exponent of the halftone news picture. To fully exploit the new technology, Collier recruited James H. Hare, Colliers only son, Robert J. Collier, became a full partner in 1898. By 1904, the magazine was known as Colliers, The National Weekly, when Robert Collier died in 1918, he left a will that turned the magazine over to three of his friends, Samuel Dunn, Harry Payne Whitney and Francis Patrick Garvan. The magazine was sold in 1919 to the Crowell Publishing Company, in 1924 Crowell moved the printing operations from New York to Springfield, Ohio but kept the editorial and business departments in New York. After 1924, printing of the magazine was done at the Crowell-Collier printing plant on West Main Street in Springfield, Ohio. The factory complex, which is standing, was built between 1899 and 1946, and incorporates seven buildings that together have more than 846,000 square feet —20 acres —of floor space. Colliers popularized the story which was often planned to fit on a single page. Knox Burger was Colliers fiction editor from 1948 to 1951 when he left to edit books for Dell and Fawcett Publications, phillips Oppenheim, J. D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Payson Terhune and Walter Tevis. Humor writers included Parke Cummings and H. Allen Smith, serializing novels during the late 1920s, Colliers sometimes simultaneously ran two ten-part novels, and non-fiction was also serialized
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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