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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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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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1914 College Football All-America Team
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The 1914 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1914 college football season. Although not recognized by the NCAA, many sports writers, newspapers. Harvard end Huntington Hardwick was the player who was unanimously selected as a first-team All-American by all 27 selectors identified below. The Los Angeles Times reported that Maulbetsch, Michigans hero, is about the one of 1914s stars who received an almost unanimous vote. The chart below reflects the number of polls in which the candidates were selected as a first-team All-Americans. Red OHare, Army Harold White, Syracuse Earl W. Mills, Navy Laurence B
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1917 College Football All-America Team
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The 1917 College Football All-America team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-America Teams selected by various organizations in 1917. The selections were affected by the First World War, the Walter Camp Football Foundation lists no team in 1917. Camp posted an All-Service team in Colliers Weekly, and other organizations posted All-American teams, Walter Eckersall accidentally picked two players from Tech High School in an attempt to give credence to the first consensus national champion from the south, Georgia Tech. Walker Carpenter and Everett Strupper were the first two players from the Deep South ever selected All-American, marines Spike Dennie, Brown, Funston Hunt, Coast Naval Res. George Hauser, Minnesota Alfred Cobb, Syracuse Walker Carpenter, Georgia Tech Belford West, Colgate, Dix Wilbur Henry, Washington & Jefferson John Beckett, Oregon, frank Culver, Michigan Chris Schlachter, Syracuse, Newport Res. C. J. Grabb, Brown H. M. Grey, Davidson Ernest Allmendinger, Michigan, Ft. Sheridan Charles Lane, California Herbert Dieter, Pennsylvania C. G. Callahan, Yale, Newport Res. Paul Des Jardien, Chicago, Ft. Sheridan Lud Wray, Penn, U. S. Marine Corps Alex Wray, Pennsylvania Oscar P. Lambert, Michigan Hommand, Kas. Joe Guyon, Georgia Tech Eddie Casey, Harvard, Boston Navy Yard Wayland Minot, Harvard, Devens Bernard Gerrish, Dartmouth, upton Chic Harley, Ohio State George Tank McLaren, Pittsburgh Joseph Howard Berry, Jr. Smith, Michigan, Great Lakes Eddie Mahan, Harvard, U. S. Marine Corps Earl Curley Cramer, Hamline, USAACS Bob Koehler, Northwestern Maxfield, Lafayette, Ft. Slocum Thayer, Pa. Menke Other selectors WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune DJ = Dick Jemison, NYT = All Service eleven of the New York Times
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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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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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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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William Randolph Hearst
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Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after being given control of The San Francisco Examiner by his wealthy father. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak and he later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. Politically he espoused the Progressive Movement, speaking on behalf of the working class and he controlled the editorial positions and coverage of political news in all his papers and magazines and thereby exercised enormous political influence. He also called for war in 1898 against Spain—as did many other newspaper editors—but he did it in sensational fashion, after 1918, he called for an isolationist foreign policy to avoid any more entanglement in what he regarded as corrupt European affairs. He was at once a militant nationalist, a fierce anti-communist, and deeply suspicious of the League of Nations and of the British, French, Japanese, and Russians. He was a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932–34, but then broke with FDR. His life story was the inspiration for Charles Foster Kane. His famous mansion, Hearst Castle, on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean near San Simeon, is now a State Historical Monument and a National Historic Landmark. William R. Hearst was born in San Francisco, to mining engineer, goldmine owner and U. S. senator George Hearst. His paternal great-grandfather was John Hearst, of Ulster Protestant origin and he migrated to America from Ballybay, County Monaghan as part of the Cahans Exodus with his wife and six children in 1766 and settled in South Carolina. Their immigration to South Carolina was spurred in part by the governments policy that encouraged the immigration of Irish Protestants. The names John Hearse and John Hearse Jr, the Hearse spelling of the family name never was used afterward by the family members themselves, or any family of any size. Hearsts mother, née Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson, was also of Irish ancestry and she was the first woman regent of University of California, Berkeley, funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Following preparation at St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire, while there he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the A. D. Searching for an occupation, in 1887, Hearst took over management of a newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, a self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municipal and financial corruption, often attacking companies in which his own family held an interest. Within a few years, his paper dominated the San Francisco market, outcault, the inventor of color comics, and all of Pulitzers Sunday staff as well. Another prominent hire was James J. Montague, who came from the Portland Oregonian, Hearst imported his best managers from the San Francisco Examiner and quickly established himself as the most attractive employer among New York newspapers. Hearsts activist approach to journalism can be summarized by the motto, While others Talk, the New York Journal and its chief rival, the New York World, mastered a style of popular journalism that came to be derided as yellow journalism, after Outcaults Yellow Kid comic
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Parke H. Davis
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Parke Hill Davis was an American football player, coach, and historian who retroactively named national championship teams in American college football from the 1869 through the 1932 seasons. He also named co-national champions at the conclusion of the 1933 season, Davis selections are included in the NCAAs official football record books, as the only championship teams chosen on the basis of research. Davis was a lineman for Princeton and a member of the Tigers tug-of-war team in 1889 before going on to coach at Wisconsin, Amherst and Lafayette and he displayed an admirable range of talents. The biggest win of the 1896 season came in Philadelphia against Pennsylvania on October 24, a standout for Lafayette was a newcomer named Fielding Hurry Up Yost. Yost began playing football at West Virginia University in 1894 at the age of 23, a 6-foot, 200-pounder, Yost was a star tackle at WVU into the 1896 season. He transferred in mid-season to join what would be Coach Davis national championship team, true to his nickname, just a week after playing against Davis in West Virginia, Hurry Up was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the Quakers. The fortuitous timing of Yosts appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials and they called it the Yost affair. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football, the fact that Yost appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once. In the Penn game… and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest, Yost assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study. But 1897 found Hurry Up no longer a student or a player, in 1901, he was hired as head coach at the University of Michigan, beginning a storied 25-year, Hall of Fame career. After concluding his own career as a football coach, Davis became a prominent attorney in Easton, Pennsylvania. He lived there the rest of his life, in the October 1900 meeting of the Lafayette Democratic Club, Davis was the orator of the evening, after the group unanimously endorsed the national ticket of William Jennings Bryan. The ex-coach and loyal supporter of athletics of Lafayette served as an umpire in football games and as starter at the colleges track meets. Davis wrote an history of American football in 1911, tracing the sports origins to ancient times. abundant evidence may be marshalled to prove that this is the oldest outdoor game in existence. In the 22nd chapter of Isaiah is found the verse, He will turn and he helped select the 1913 College Football All-America Team while serving as Princetons representative on the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. He served on the Rules Committee from 1909 to 1915, playing a key role in shaping the evolution of the game. Among the innovations with which he is credited are the division of the game into quarters, numbering of players, abolition of inter-locked interference, if the fumble is recovered behind an opponents goal line the ball shall be put in play at the point where it was fumbled. Davis was a friend and admirer of Walter Camp, Father of American Football, in a 1926 authorized biography of Camp, author Harford Powel, Jr
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Walter Eckersall
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Walter Herbert Eckie Eckersall was an American college football player, official, and sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune. He played for the Maroons of the University of Chicago, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, Eckersall was selected as the quarterback for Walter Camps All-Time All-America Team honoring the greatest college football players during the sports formative years. He was selected to Camps All-American teams in 1904,1905, born in Chicago in 1886, Eckersall grew up in its Woodlawn neighborhood just south of the University of Chicago. His talent emerged at Hyde Park High School, where he dashed 100 yards in 10.0 seconds, an Illinois record for 25 years, Eckersall later wrote about his years at Hyde Park in a column picked up for national syndication in 1918. Much of the article was about African American player and World War I veteran Lieutenant Samuel Ransom, Eckersall was highly recruited out of high school by both Fielding Yost of Michigan and Amos Alonzo Stagg of Chicago. Stagg resorted to chicanery, snatching Eckersall off a platform to keep him from attending a recruitment rendezvous arranged by Michigan coaches in Ann Arbor in 1904. In Eckersall, Stagg saw the promise of a selfless performer, during his career, Eckersall led Chicago to a 25–2–1 record, outscoring their opponents 856–66. The two losses were to Michigan in 1904 and to Minnesota in 1906, the tie was a 6–6 stalemate with Illinois in 1904. In 1905, the sophomore led the Maroons to a national championship. Michigan was 12–0 and had a 56-game undefeated streak on the line, on third down, as Eckersall attempted to punt, he encountered a fearsome rush, but evaded the Michigan tacklers and was able to scramble to the 22-yard line and a first down. After three more first downs, the stalled and Chicago was forced to punt again. Eckersalls booming punt carried into the end zone where it was caught by Michigans William Dennison Clark who attempted to run the ball out. He advanced the ball forward to the line, but was hit hard by Art Badenoch. Under the rules of the time, forward progress was not credited, the rest of the third and fourth quarters continued as a defensive stalemate. Chicagos 2–0 victory snapped Michigans 56-game unbeaten streak and gave Chicago the national championship for 1905 and it is one of the first games referred to as a Game of the Century. As a tragic note to this game, Clark received the blame for the Michigan loss, in a suicide note to his wife he reportedly expressed the hope that his final play would be of some benefit in atoning for his error at Marshall Field. After his playing days, Eckersall remained a prominent figure in football and he had a successful dual career as a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune and as a game official. As a referee, Eckersall was considered one of the best, highly regarded as an authority on football, he selected the Chicago Tribunes all star team, his All Western eleven carried prestige
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Fielding H. Yost
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Fielding Harris Yost was an American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. During his 25 seasons as the football coach in Ann Arbor, Yosts Michigan Wolverines won six national championships, captured ten Big Ten Conference titles. From 1901 to 1905, his Point-a-Minute squads went 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821 to 42, the 1901 team beat Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. Under Yost, Michigan won four national championships from 1901 to 1904. In 1921, Yost became Michigans athletic director and served in capacity until 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951, Yost was also a successful business person, lawyer, and author, but he is best known as a leading figure in pioneering the development of college football into a national phenomenon. Yost was born in Fairview, West Virginia, in April 1871, Yosts family had settled in West Virginia, in 1925. He was the oldest of four children of Parmenus Wesley Yost and Elzena Jane Yost and his father was a farmer and Confederate veteran. His family had been in Fairview since 1825 when his great, great grandfather, David Yost, settled there, Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager. At seventeen, he got a teaching certificate. Yost began his education at Fairmont Normal School in Fairmont. He then taught school at Patterson Creek, West Virginia, during the 1889–90 school year, Yost next enrolled at Ohio Normal School. Yost played for the Ohio Normal baseball team, after three years at Ohio Normal, Yost returned to West Virginia to work in the oil fields. In 1895, Yost enrolled at West Virginia University where he studied law and he also played football for West Virginia University football team. A 6-foot,200 pounder, Yost was a standout at tackle at West Virginia into the 1896 season and he transferred in mid-season to join Coach Parke H. Daviss national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week playing against Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the Penn Quakers. The fortuitous timing of Yosts appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials and they called it the Yost affair. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football, the fact that Yost appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game, and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances
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Guy Chamberlin
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Berlin Guy Champ Chamberlin was a professional American football player and coach in the National Football League. He played at Nebraska Wesleyan University and then at the University of Nebraska and he graduated from Nebraska in 1916. Originally a halfback, in 1915 he moved to end and was named All-American end and he served in the United States Army from 1917 to 1919. He served as player-coach on four NFL title teams,1922 and 1923 Canton Bulldogs,1924 Cleveland Bulldogs, in 1925, Chamberlin became player-coach of the Frankford Yellow Jackets, who finished only sixth that year, with a record of 13–7. In 1926, the Yellow Jackets went 14–1–1 to win the NFL Championship and his career NFL coaching record was 58 wins,16 losses, and 7 ties. Chamberlin has the best win percentage of any coach in NFL history, Chamberlin returned to Blue Springs in 1932, where he became a farmer, state livestock inspector, and businessman. A well-known authority on football, he became a public speaker and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. Guy Chamberlin at the College Football Hall of Fame Guy Chamberlin at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Guy Chamberlin at Find a Grave
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Bert Baston
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Albert Preston Baston was an American football player for the University of Minnesota, where he was an All-American and one of the first great catchers of the forward pass. He was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in World War I, in 1954 he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. Baston was a phenomenon in high school, where he played for Saint Louis Park High School in St. Louis Park. Entering the University of Minnesota to study law, he played football on the schools elevens at left end for three seasons beginning in 1914 and he was captain of the team his final year. Walter Camp named him on his All-American team both in 1915 and in 1916, in addition to his football honors, while at Minnesota Baston was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. During World War I Baston served with the 17th Company of the 5th Marine Regiment and he was a captain and fought in France. He suffered a leg injury while serving in the Battle of Belleau Wood, with a hole in his leg big enough to stick a broom handle through. Baston spent almost a year in the hospital, and when he got out he started a bakery in Detroit and he married Ruby Laird in 1920. Baston played that year for the Cleveland Tigers, an early NFL team. Eventually the couple returned to Minneapolis and started the Bert Baston Chevrolet Co. at 3038 Hennepin Avenue and his sales manager during the 1930s was George Richard Baston, the only surviving son of Berts uncle, John Judson Baston. Baston served as the Minnesota Gophers ends coach from 1930 to the 1941, Baston and Ruby had two children, Fred, who also served in World War II and in the Korean War, and a daughter, Priscilla. Baston resumed his career after the war. The 1947 St. Louis Park City directory listed his Baston-Barington Chevrolet Co. at 2612 Lyndale Avenue and he remained active in the community and was appointed as General Chairman of the 1948 Minneapolis Aquatennial. Baston moved to St. Cloud later in life and opened a dealership there, in 1954 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Baston died in St. Cloud on November 15,1979, Bert Baston at the College Football Hall of Fame
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Bob Higgins (American football)
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Robert A. Higgins was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Pennsylvania State University, where he was a three-time All-America and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. Higgins played at Penn State from 1914 to 1916, and was named an All-American in 1915, after spending World War I in the service, he returned to captain Penn State, earning All-America honors again in 1919. In a 20–0 victory over Pittsburgh that season, Higgins caught a pass from Walter Hess, in 1920 and 1921, Higgins played end for the Canton Bulldogs of the National Football League. Higgins coached four seasons at West Virginia Wesleyan, and three seasons at Washington University in St. Louis and he returned to Penn State in 1928, first as an assistant coach, before becoming head coach in 1930. He served as coach there for the next 19 seasons. He led the Nittany Lions to only the second season in the schools history. It marked only the time that Penn State had played in a bowl game. Ill health forced Higgins retirement after the 1948 season, but he remained at Penn State as a assistant in the Physical Education Department until his retirement in November 1951. His overall coaching record was 123–83–16 and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Higgins was a brother of Margaret Sanger, famed campaigner for birth control, family planning and his youngest daughter Nancy married James J Dooley Jr, who was a second team All American Center in 1952 at Penn State. Their son James J Dooley III also played football at Penn State from 1979 to 1981 and their other son Peter Dooley was on the Cross Country and Track & Field team at Penn State from 1982-84. Bob Higgins eldest grandson, Robert Lyford, son of Higgins eldest daughter Mary Ann and his daughter Virginia married All-American guard and fellow College Football Hall of Fame inductee Steve Suhey. He is the grandfather of Penn State standouts Paul Suhey and Larry Suhey and former Chicago Bears fullback. More recently, Pauls son Kevin and Matts son Joe have played for the Nittany Lions, the Higgins-Suhey family has been called the first family of Penn State football, with 90 years of involvement with the program. List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees Bob Higgins at the College Football Hall of Fame Bob Higgins at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
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The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents Athletic Conference, since its founding in 1890, the team has played their home games at College Field, which was remodeled and renamed Cameron Stadium in 2001. A number of players were named to the College Football All-America Team, the team has been coached by some of the best-known coaches in football history, including John Heisman, Greasy Neale, and Andy Kerr. Founded in 1890, the quickly became well known for drawing large crowds. The faculty and administration expressed concern over the strength of the team, during the 1910s, some sportswriters suggested that the Presidents were one of the top teams in the nation. The greatest achievement in the history was in 1921, when the Presidents appeared in the 1922 Rose Bowl. As college football evolved in the 1930s and 1940s, the Presidents fell far behind their larger competitors, controversy over the poor play of the football team, and a lack of play against larger teams, contributed to the resignation of a college president. In the 1950s the team joined NCAA Division III and the Presidents Athletic Conference, by the 1980s, the team had learned to thrive in that environment, winning a number of conference championships and regularly qualifying for the NCAA Division III playoffs. The football team played its first game on November 1,1890, the Red and Blacks third game of the inaugural season, against College of Wooster, remains disputed to this day, with both schools claiming a victory. By 1894, the communitys interest in the sport had grown considerably, with stronger opponents. A special train from Washington to Pittsburgh was chartered to carry fans, John Brallier, who was the first openly professional football player, played football for Washington & Jefferson College in 1895 before returning to the Greensburg Athletic Association. This incident, and others, caused the faculty to adopt the colleges first eligibility requirements for student athletes, at the same time its activities was becoming more scrutinized, the football team became more successful. But was the September 29,1897, game against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers that marked the birth of football at W&J. The Red and Black lost 18-4 to the national champions. In a game against Denison University on Sept.19,1908, in 1910, the football program was in danger of being dissolved due to crushing debt. The Student Athletic Committee proposed a $1 per term student fee to fund the team, however, team manager and beloved student solicitor Robert M. Murphy, was able to convince the students to accept the fee. However, the Faculty Athletic Committee balked, vetoing the new rules, wells highlighted the growing tension between athletics and academics. As orchestrated by a group of football supporters, the two professors were brought before a faculty committee for not having the requisite support for the athletic programs
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James P. Herron
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James Patrick Pat Herron was an American football player and coach. He played at end for the University of Pittsburghs football team from 1913 to 1916, a member of the Panthers undefeated national championship teams coached by Pop Warner in 1915 and 1916, Herron earned first team All-American honors in 1916. Following graduation, Herron served as first assistant coach to Warner before being leaving to become the coach at Indiana University Bloomington in 1922. He also served as the coach at Duke University in 1925 and at Washington. Herron, who earned a law degree, served in the aviation service during World War I and was credited for bringing down two German planes. Herron died at the age of 73 on December 20,1967 at Monongahela Memorial Hospital in Monongahela, james P. Herron at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Earl Abell
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Tuffy Abell was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a tackle at Colgate University and he later returned to Colgate as an assistant coach in 1925, and took over the head coaching job in 1928. He spent the 1929 and 1930 football seasons as coach of the University of Virginia Cavaliers football team. He attended Portage High School in Portage, Wisconsin, Abell was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as player in 1973. Abell was the 13th head football coach for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets located in Lexington, Virginia and his career coaching record at VMI was 4 wins,4 losses, and 1 ties. This ranks him 24th at VMI in total wins and 16th at VMI in winning percentage, Abell was the 22nd head football coach for the Colgate University Raiders located in the Village of Hamilton in Madison County, New York and he held that position for the 1928 season. His overall coaching record at Colgate was 6 wins,3 losses and this ranks him 17th at Colgate in terms of total wins and tenth at Colgate in terms of winning percentage. Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Abell attended Colgate University, where he became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Abell was married and had three children. He worked for the American Can Company upon retiring from coaching and he died of a heart attack on May 26,1956. Note, In the 1918 season, Abell served as a co-coach alongside Mose Goodman, Earl Abell at the College Football Hall of Fame Earl Abell at the College Football Data Warehouse Earl Abell & Mose Goodman at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Laurens Shull
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Laurens Corning Spike Shull was an All-American football player who was killed in action during World War I. He played football, baseball and basketball for the University of Chicago from 1913–1916 and he died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Château-Thierry in July 1918. Shull was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of a prominent Iowa attorney and he graduated with honors from Sioux City High School in 1912 where he was captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams. After graduating high school, Shull enrolled at the University of Chicago where he won three varsity letters in each of three sports – football, basketball and baseball and he was selected as a first-team All-Western player and a second-team All-American in 1915. In announcing Shulls selection for the 1915 All-Western team, Walter Eckersall wrote and he was the main cog in the Maroon forward wall and seldom allowed substantial gains to be made through him. He generally mixed in every play, varied his charges and was always down the field under kicks, the Maroon followed the ball with rare cunning and has had enough experience to hold his own with any lineman in the West. He was also president of the Young Mens Christian Association during his year and was a delegate to a YMCA conference of student leaders at Ithaca. After graduating from Chicago, Shull became employed as a vice president at the Farmers Bank in Woodward. During his time in Woodward, Shull coached the school football team. He also became affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and Benevolent, in May 1917, after the entry of the United States into World War I, Shull entered the U. S. Army officer training camp at Fort Snelling. In August 1917, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the infantry. He sailed for Liverpool, England on September 7,1917, in December 1917, he became an officer in the 26th Infantry, Company F, First Division. Shull and his men engaged in raids in no mans land and he was deployed to Flanders where he was part of 15 engagements and was slightly injured in a German gas attack. On July 18,1918, Shull was wounded at Battle of Château-Thierry, three weeks later, he died at American Red Cross Hospital No.1 at Neuilly a suburb of Paris, of complications due to bullet wounds. Shull was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his action in leading his men against a German machine-gun nest on the day he suffered the wounds from which he died. He told me that he wanted to get into the Fort Sheridan Camp where so many of his friends would be, so Im going to fool them and enlist. From his talk I gathered that Spike did not look upon his enlistment in the spirit of adventure. He gave me the impression that he felt there was no sufficient reason why he should not go
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Alex Weyand
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Alexander Mathias Babe Weyand was an American football player, Olympian, Army officer and sports historian. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974, Weyand was born on January 10,1891 to Alexander N. Weyand and Mary C. Lieberman in Jersey City, New Jersey. Weyand played high school football at Jersey City High School, where he did not earn a letter in any sport, at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1911 to 1915, Weyand starred at tackle and was the captain of the 1915 team. In 1913, Army lost one game—against Notre Dame and its legends Knute Rockne and they were undefeated in 1914 with a 20–7 win over the Irish. And they beat Navy in 1913,1914 and 1915, the same years Weyand was selected to the College Football All-America Team. After graduating from West Point, Weyand served with distinction in World War I, after World War I, he competed in the heavyweight Greco-Roman class in wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Due to severe hearing loss caused by frontline duty in World War I and he retired from active duty in 1946 at the rank of Colonel. In retirement, Col. Weyand wrote a series of acclaimed sports histories, including the seminal Saga of American Football, foreword by Grantland Rice. In 1965, Weyand and former Delaware lacrosse coach Milton Roberts wrote The Lacrosse Story, Weyand died on May 10,1982 in North Bellmore, New York. He is interred next to his wife, Marie, at West Point, alex Weyand at the College Football Hall of Fame
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William T. Van de Graaff
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William Travis Bully Van de Graaff was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Alabama, where he was selected as an All-American in 1915, Bully was placed on an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. Van de Graaff served as the football coach at Colorado College from 1926 to 1939. He coached hall of famer Dutch Clark and he died in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 26,1977 at the age of 81. He was the brother of physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff. Bullys two older brothers, Hargrove and Adrian, were also Alabama football players, Alabama Sports Hall of Fame profile
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Josh Cody
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Joshua Crittenden Cody was an American college athlete, head coach, and athletics director. Cody was a native of Tennessee and an alumnus of Vanderbilt University, as a versatile tackle on the football team, he was a three-time All-American. In 1969, Cody was named by the Football Writers Association of America to the 1869–1918 Early Era All-American Team and he was inducted as a player into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. He assisted the likes of Dan McGugin and Ray Morrison, Josh Cody was born in Franklin, Tennessee, on June 11,1892, to James Wadkins Cody, a painter, and Sarah Elizabeth Crittenden. He was raised in Franklin and attended Battle Ground Academy, Cody first played three seasons at Bethel College, including the 105–0 loss to Vanderbilt in 1912. In 1914, at the age of 22, he enrolled at Vanderbilt University and was a member of the football, basketball, baseball, one source called Cody, the interference-smashingest, goal-cageingest, home-run knockingest, super-athlete in all Dixie. He was unbelievably skilled and nimble for a big man in basketball, Cody played for legendary coach Dan McGugins football team as an offensive and defensive tackle, but was versatile enough to play quarterback, running back, and kicker at times. Fuzzy Woodruff described Cody as a kicker and a tower of strength on offense. He was a large player at some 6 feet 4 inches. McGugin later selected him as one of the six best players he ever coached and he was known as a sure tackler, and fierce blocker, who helped the Commodores score 1,099 points in thirty-five games. Vanderbilt was 23–9–1 in his four seasons, including 21–3–3 in his three years. Cody was selected to at least one All-Southern team every year he played, journalist Ralph McGill, once a teammate of Codys, said, He was a great big fellow and one of the most seriously dedicated fellows Ive ever met. He was a boy and he didnt have any polish but he was very honest. He didnt have scholarship—we had none in those days— but he had a real job and he literally cleaned the gymnasium every day, cleaned up the locker rooms and the showers, and tended to the coal furnace after practice. He was a big man, squarely built, quiet, almost shy and he practiced long hours to place kick and became the teams place kicker. He wasnt fast, but he was fast for a big man and he didnt like to wear pads. He got a hold of an old quilt and sewed it to the shoulders of the jersey, in his second game, a 23–3 loss to Michigan in Ann Arbor, Cody converted a 45-yard drop kick field goal. At one point he also fell on Michigans Tommy Hughitt while both dove after a fumble, though the referees did not call roughing, Michigan was bitter about the lack of a call throughout the game, and shortly after even threatened to end the contest between the two schools
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Clarence Spears
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Clarence Wiley Doc Spears was an American football player, coach, and doctor. Spears was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1955, Spears attended Dartmouth College, where he played guard and was selected to the College Football All-America Team in 1914 and 1915. Spears was the coach for the Dartmouth Indians football team from 1917 to 1920. From 1921 to 1924, he coached the West Virginia Mountaineers football team, following that, Spears coached the Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1925 to 1929, leading the team to a 6–0–2 record and a share of the Big Ten Conference title in 1927. He had a 28–9–3 record at Minnesota, Spears was the coach at Oregon in 1930 and 1931. From 1932 to 1935 he coached the Wisconsin Badgers, from 1936 to 1942, Spears was Toledos coach. Finally, he was the coach at Maryland in 1943 and 1944, Spears had two undefeated seasons as a coach,1922 at West Virginia and 1927 at Minnesota. In 1955, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, while coaching, Spears studied medicine at the University of Chicago and the Rush Medical College. Following his football career, he maintained a practice for many years. Clarence Spears at the College Football Hall of Fame Clarence Spears at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Bob Peck (American football)
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Bob Peck was an American football player who most famously played center for the Pittsburgh Panthers, where he was a three-time All-American. Peck was a prominent center for Pop Warners Pitt Panthers and he was selected as a first-team All-American in each of 1914,1915, and 1916. Peck also won national championships in 1915 and 1916. In 1917 he played in the Ohio League, the predecessor to the modern National Football League for the Youngstown Patricians. That season he earned first team all-pro honors, in 1920, Peck played for the Fort Wayne Friars in the teams victory over the Columbus Panhandles. Following his time at Pitt, he served as the Athletic director at Culver Military Academy until his death attributed to heart disease in 1932. He was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954
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Pop Warner
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Glenn Scobey Warner, most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game. Included among his innovations are the single and double wing formations, fellow pioneer coach Amos Alonzo Stagg called Warner one of the excellent creators. He was inducted as a coach into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its class in 1951. He also contributed to a football program which became known as Pop Warner Little Scholars. In the early 1900s, he created a football program at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School—a federally-funded. He also coached teams to four championships, Pittsburgh in 1915,1916. Predating Bear Bryant and Bobby Bowden, he once had the most wins of any coach in football history. Warner was born April 5,1871 on a farm in Springville and he was the son of William Warner, a cavalry officer in the American Civil War, and schoolteacher Adaline Scobey. In 1878 a railroad came to Springville, and four years later the moved to a house on East Main Street. Plump as a child, Warner was sometimes known as Butter and he began playing baseball at an early age, and was a skilled pitcher. Nobody in town owned a football, his exposure to the new sport at a young age was with an inflated cows bladder, and as few knew the rules. Warners East Main Street house attracted a number of friends, when a neighbor told his mother that the play would damage her lawn, she replied, Im raising boys. Aside from ranching, Warner got a job assisting a tinsmith and he was already interested in art as a kid — learning how to paint watercolor landscapes, and as a tinsmith he learned how to use tools to make cups, teapots, baking pans as well as lanterns. In 1892, Warner returned to Springville and began to use his experience to gamble on horse races. Although he had no interest in college, soon after coming back he was forced to attend Cornell Universitys law school. Later Warner wrote I dare not write to my father and tell him I was broke — he felt that the way to get funds was to inform his father that he decided to study law. His father, who had wanted him to be a lawyer. Eventually, Warner became known as Pop because he was one of the oldest students at Cornell, at the end of 1894, Warner left Cornell and began working as an attorney in Buffalo, New York
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Baby Taylor
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George Ellis Baby Taylor was an American college football player. Taylor was a prominent tackle for Mike Donahues Auburn Tigers of Auburn University from 1913 to 1915 and he was a member of the undefeated Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion 1913 team. Injuries became a concern when 220-pound right guard F. W. Lockwood and 194-pound end G. E. Taylor had knee and ankle problems. “These are the heaviest players on the Auburn squad and their loss deprives the line of any advantage it might have had because of superior weight. ”Taylor drew praise for his play against Georgia Tech in a 14 to 0 victory in 1914. In 1914 Auburn featured four All-Southern linemen, Taylor along with Bull Kearley, Boozer Pitts, the student newspaper recalls in its announcement of Auburn as champions, Babe Taylor, Auburn warrior, and by the way, Birmingham-bred, displayed a vast amount of gameness yesterday afternoon. In the early part of the first quarter someone, unthoughtedly of course, kicked in the section of Babe’s face. Babe’s face wore an expression of agony and the blood trickled down his features in doublequick time, one writer claims Auburn had a lot of great football teams, but there may not have been one greater than the 1913–1914 team. Taylor was the regular left at the start of the 1915 season. Taylor was a unanimous All-Southern selection along with Alabamas first All-American Bully Van de Graaff, weighing just under 200 pounds, Taylor would be a small player today, but he was then considered quite large, worth three ordinary men. Miss Virginia Gilmer, an Auburn fan of some 13 years of age once told Taylor that “if she were a boy and as big as he and had any sense at all she would be an all-southern tackle. ”Baby Taylor at Find a Grave
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John McEwan
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John James Cap McEwan was an American football player and coach. He played from 1913 to 1916 as a center at the United States Military Academy, McEwan served as the head football coach at West Point, the University of Oregon, and the College of the Holy Cross, compiling a career college football record of 59–23–6. He also coached at the level for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League from 1933 to 1934. McEwan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1962, from 1923 to 1925 McEwan led Army to an 18–5–3 record. All three of his seasons there were winning seasons, from 1926 to 1929 he took over as the head football coach at Oregon. His record there stands at 20–13–2, with his 1928 team completing a 9–2 campaign, John McEwan at the College Football Hall of Fame John McEwan at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Charley Barrett
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Charley Chuck Barrett was an American football player. He was the consensus All-American quarterback in 1914 and 1915 while playing for Cornell University and led Cornell to an undefeated season and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958. Barrett was born in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, and raised in Cleveland and he attended the University School in Cleveland before enrolling at Cornell University. At Cornell, Barrett was quarterback for the team and a pitcher for the baseball team. He was Cornells quarterback from 1913 to 1915 where he developed a reputation as a triple threat man who kept opponents guessing. He led Cornell to a record of 8–2 in 1914 and 9–0 in 1915, the undefeated 1915 team was recognized as the national football champion and became known as the Big Red machine. In Barretts final college game, Cornell trailed the Penn by a score of 9–0. He scored on runs of 40,25 and three yards and drop-kicked a field goal and three extra points, Barrett was selected as the consensus first-team All-American quarterback in both 1914 and 1915. He was also selected by his teammates as the captain of the 1915 football team, the New York Times called him the greatest football player ever developed at Cornell. Barrett had difficulties keeping up with his classwork as an engineering student and was placed on academic probation in February 1915. The probation was removed in time for Barrett to play for the team in the fall of 1915. In February 1916, Barrett was busted out of Cornells College of Mechanical Engineering for failure to meet his scholastic requirements, Barrett served as an ensign in the United States Navy during World War I. In 1918, he was injured in an explosion on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn in Yokohama harbor, after returning to the United States, Barrett lived in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. In November 1919, he married Edna Stevens in a ceremony at the home of the brides sister. Barrett and his wife had two daughters, Barrett later went into the real estate business in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1923, hoping to recover his health and he died in Tucson in May 1924 at age 30. S. S. Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor, Japan, during the World War, as a tribute to his splendid loyalty and leadership and as homage to a most worthy gridiron adversary, we respectfully dedicate this tablet to Cornell University. His teammates and friends, and the 1915 Pennsylvania football team
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Bart Macomber
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Franklin Bart Macomber was an American football player. He later played football for the Canton Bulldogs and Youngstown Patricians. He was also the coach and owner of the Oakland Oaks in the Pacific Coast professional football league founded in 1926 and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. A native of Oak Park, Illinois and his father, Frank Macomber, had once been the mayor of Oak Park. Macomber played high school football for Hall of Fame coach Bob Zuppke at Oak Park High School, Macomber played on three consecutive undefeated teams at Oak Park and once kicked 16 extra points in a single game against Chicago Englewood in October 1911. At Oak Park, Macomber set state school records for most extra points in a career. His records were not broken for more than 70 years, Oak Park won the game 17–0, and the Chicago Daily News reported, The winners outclassed the eastern men using open style of football. The visitors played the old style football, hammering Oak Park’s line on every play … Macomber used the forward pass combined with trick formations with great success. Zuppkes Oak Park team was considered one of the best in the country, Macomber played halfback and quarterback at Illinois from 1914 to 1916. He helped the Illini to the schools first national championship in 1914, the 1914 team allowed only 22 total points during an undefeated 7–0 season. Macomber was selected as a first-team All-American in 1915, in naming Macomber to his All-American team, Walter Camp praised Macombers kicking and field generalship. Macomber was elected captain of the 1916 Illinois team and he played halfback for the Illini in 1914 and 1915 before switching to quarterback in 1916. Macomber also handled kicking duties at Illinois, at the end of the 1916 season, Macomber was selected by Walter Eckersall as the All-Big Ten Conference quarterback. Eckersall wrote of Macomber, Bart Macomber, leader of the University of Illinois eleven, is selected to play quarterback and he is one of the best players who has worn an Illinois uniform in years. It was largely through his efforts, offensively and defensively, that the Illini have held a position in Conference football for the last three years. Macomber is one of the most dependable kickers who has represented a Conference eleven in years and he can punt for an average of forty-five yards, kick goals from the fleld either by placement or drop kick, and is sure on kicking goals after touchdowns. … The Illinois captain has been a factor in all games played by the Zuppke eleven this year, in the Ohio State game, in which his eleven was beaten,7 to 6, he kicked two goals from the fleld. In the Minnesota game, which resulted in an unexpected victory Macomber was the one player who brought victory to his team and his forward passing and stellar defensive play hardly could have been improved upon
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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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Bernie Bierman
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Bernard W. Bernie Bierman was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He coached from 1919 to 1950 except for a span during World War II when he served in the U. S. armed forces. At Minnesota, Biermans Golden Gophers compiled a 93–35–6 record, won five championships and seven Big Ten Conference titles. Bierman was also the basketball coach at Montana, Mississippi State. Bierman grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota and was married to Clara McKenzie Bierman and they had two sons, William A. Bierman, a lawyer in St. Paul, Minnesota, and James Bierman, of Los Angeles, California. Bierman was a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Bernie Bierman at the College Football Hall of Fame Bernie Bierman at the College Football Data Warehouse Bernie Bierman at College Basketball at Sports-Reference. com
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Fritz Shiverick
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Francis T. Fritz Shiverick was an American football quarterback and halfback. He played for Cornell University in 1915,1916 and 1919 and he was posthumously inducted into Cornells Hall of Fame in 1987. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Shiverick graduated in 1914 from the University School of Chicago where he had played halfback for three years, Shiverick then enrolled at Cornell, where he played for the schools varsity football team from 1915–1916 and 1919. As a sophomore in 1915, Shiverick began the season as a back for the Cornell varsity. He made a name for himself in Cornells 1915 victory over Percy Haughtons 1915 Harvard team—the first loss suffered by Harvard since 1911, replacing Charley Barrett, Shiverick came into the game with a 7–0 lead. Backed up to their own line, Cornell was forced to punt into a strong wind. Shiverick was called on to punt for Cornell and kicked the ball 86 yards for what proved to be the longest punt of the year in college football, later in the same game, Shiverick drop-kicked the ball for a field goal from the 40-yard line. Shivericks teammate Ray Van Orman later described Shivericks long punt against Harvard as the headiest play he ever saw, Van Orman wrote that Shiverick called a couple of signals and then stalled for time. Shiverick was punting into the end of the stadium with the wind pouring in. Concluding that the wind was circling through the stadium like a whirlpool and he then drove a low, hard kick that was carried by the reverse current over the head of Harvards safety man, Eddie Mahan. After the 1915 season, Shiverick was selected for Outing magazines Football Roll of Honor, in 1916, Shiverick returned as Cornells starting quarterback and led the Big Red to wins over Michigan and Penn. In Cornells 23-20 win over Michigan, he drop-kicked two field goals, including one from the 45-yard line, Shiverick was also selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger society and elected captain of the 1917 Cornell football team. Shiverick is playing his second year on the varsity and he is a junior and a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Before the 1917 football season began, the United States entered World War I, during the fall of 1917, Shiverick starred for the Camp Grant football team that included Shiverick, Harry Costello Jerry DePrado, Gene Schobinger and Nelson Norgren. In 1918, Shiverick served in France as a captain in the Provost Marshal Generals department, after being discharged from the military at the end of World War I, Shiverick returned to Cornell. He kicked a field goal from the 20-yard line in the first quarter. In the second quarter be broke through on a play off right tackle, shook off all tacklers and he also kicked a field goal that provided all of the scoring in a 3–0 victory over Williams College. He became known as a machine, the strongest punter in the country
