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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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1917 college football season
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The 1917 NCAA football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Georgia Tech as national champions, the Souths first. Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Williams, and Washington State were also undefeated, the Golden Tornado was invited to play a 4–3 Oregon team in the Rose Bowl, but by then many players had joined the war effort. In the second week of play, Georgia Tech beat Penn 41–0, bernie McCarty called it Struppers finest hour, coming through against powerful Penn in the contest that shocked the East. By comparison, Pitt defeated Penn 14–6, one conference changed its name for the 1917 season, Michigan rejoined the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives after a nine-year absence. As such, the league was first unofficially coined the Big Ten, september 29 In a doubleheader, Georgia Tech beat Furman and then Wake Forest, 25–0 and 33–0 respectively. October 6 Georgia Tech beat Penn at home 41 to 0, october 13 Georgia Tech beat Davidson 32–10, its closest game all season. October 20 Georgia Tech beat Washington & Lee 63–0, october 27 Undefeated Pittsburgh beat Penn on the road 14 to 6. November 3 Georgia Tech gave Vanderbilt its worst ever beating, 83–0, november 10 A freshman Buck Flowers at Davidson upset Auburn 21–7. All of Georgia Techs backs rushed for 100 yards in a 48–0 defeat of Tulane, november 17 Georgia Tech beat Carlisle 98–0. November 24 Auburn fought undefeated Ohio State to a scoreless tie, coach Heisman of Georgia Tech and his players were at the game, rooting for the Tigers. November 29 Georgia Tech beat Auburn 68 to 7, the Mare Island Marines would defeat Camp Lewis 19-7 in the 1918 Rose Bowl
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1915 College Football All-America Team
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The 1915 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1915 college football season. Although not recognized by the NCAA, many sports writers, newspapers. They include Parke H. Davis, Walter Eckersall, and Fielding H. Yost, at the end of the 1915 season, Runyon noted the difficulty in picking an All-America team when most of those doing so had only seen a fraction of the players. Accordingly, Runyon chose not to call his list and All-America team, ER = Eddie N. Robinson, head coach of the Brown Bears football team. JI = Jonas H. Ingram, head coach of the Navy football team
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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first game of American football was played on November 6,1869, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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World War I
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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history and it was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. The war drew in all the worlds great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances, the Allies versus the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war, Italy, Japan, the trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This set off a crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia. Within weeks, the powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. On 25 July Russia began mobilisation and on 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia, Germany presented an ultimatum to Russia to demobilise, and when this was refused, declared war on Russia on 1 August. Germany then invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, after the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that changed little until 1917. On the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, in November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. In 1915, Italy joined the Allies and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers, Romania joined the Allies in 1916, after a stunning German offensive along the Western Front in the spring of 1918, the Allies rallied and drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives. By the end of the war or soon after, the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, national borders were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created, and Germanys colonies were parceled out among the victors. During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the Big Four imposed their terms in a series of treaties, the League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such a conflict. This effort failed, and economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation eventually contributed to World War II. From the time of its start until the approach of World War II, at the time, it was also sometimes called the war to end war or the war to end all wars due to its then-unparalleled scale and devastation. In Canada, Macleans magazine in October 1914 wrote, Some wars name themselves, during the interwar period, the war was most often called the World War and the Great War in English-speaking countries. Will become the first world war in the sense of the word. These began in 1815, with the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria, when Germany was united in 1871, Prussia became part of the new German nation. Soon after, in October 1873, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck negotiated the League of the Three Emperors between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany
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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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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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Atlanta Public Schools
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Atlanta Public Schools is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. APS is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with superintendent Dr. Meria J. Carstarphen, the school system also supports two alternative schools for middle and/or high school students, two community schools, and an adult learning center. The school system owns the license for, but does not operate, the radio station WABE-FM90.1, the Atlanta Board of Education establishes and approves the policies that govern the Atlanta Public School system. The board consists of nine members, representing six geographical districts, one person is elected per district to represent the schools in a given district for a four-year term. Under the provisions of the new Board charter, approved by the Georgia Legislature in 2003, board members elect a new chairman, the day-to-day administration of the school district is the responsibility of the Superintendent, who is appointed by the board. D. Middle School Ralph Johnson Bunche Middle School Sammye E. Coan Middle School Samuel M. H, crim Open Campus High School APS/Community Education Partnership School West End Academy The B. E. S. T. West Elementary School Arkwright Elementary School Ben Hill Elementary School Blair Village Elementary School Blalock Elementary School Burgess Elementary School C. D, Elementary School Mount Vernon Elementary School North Ave. This brought the number of schools offering free education to the citys children to seven. On September 8,1961, Time magazine reported, Last week the moral siege of Atlanta ended in spectacular fashion with the smoothest token school integration ever seen in the Deep South, into four high schools marched nine Negro students without so much as a white catcall. Teachers were soon reporting no hostility, no demonstrations, the most normal day weve ever had, in the lunchrooms, white children began introducing themselves to Negro children. At Northside High, a class was duly impressed when Donita Gaines. Said she crisply, Physiology has to do with functions, in a 1964 news story, Time would say, The Atlanta decision was a gentle attempt to accelerate one of the South’s best-publicized plans for achieving integration without revolution. By May 1961,300 transfer forms had given to black students interested in transferring out of their high schools. 132 students actually applied, of those,10 were chosen and 9 braved the press, onlookers, brown vs. with courage, tolerance and above all, respect for the law. In 2012, Atlanta Public Schools produced a documentary to honor the 50th anniversary of the desegregation efforts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a majority of Atlanta Northside public schools had either token integration, faculty and staff assignments to schools had remained mostly segregated as well. The school system was converted from a K-7 elementary and 8-12 high school grade system into a middle school 6–8 grade program. Crim remained superintendent until his retirement in 1988, in 2015 the district removed band programs at APS elementary schools
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1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team
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The 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in American football during the 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Golden Tornado, coached by John Heisman in his 14th year as coach, compiled a 9–0 record. Heisman considered the 1917 team his best, and for years it was considered the greatest football team the South had ever produced. The backfield of Albert Hill, Everett Strupper, Joe Guyon, and Judy Harlan led the Golden Tornado, and all four rushed for more than 100 yards in a 48–0 victory over Tulane. During the regular season Georgia Tech defeated strong opponents by large margins, Techs 83–0 victory over Vanderbilt is the worst loss in Vanderbilt history, and its 63–0 defeat of Washington & Lee was the worst loss in W&L history at the time. Tech finished the season by defeating Auburn 68–7, clinching the conference title, Davidson and Auburn were the only teams to score points against Georgia Tech. Because of the American entry into World War I in April, however, Georgia Tech had an increasing enrollment and bright prospects for its football team after its undefeated 1916 season. Losses from the previous seasons team included guard Bob Lang and fullback Tommy Spence, in 1917 football used a one-platoon system, in which players played both offense and defense. Fifteen of the 21 players on the 1917 roster were from the state of Georgia, the teams captain was tackle Walker Big Six Carpenter. Its renowned backfield consisted of quarterback Al Hill, halfback Everett Strupper, halfback Joe Guyon, Coach John Heismans swift backfield used the pre-snap movement of his jump shift offense, and Al Hill led the team in carries. Ev Strupper, arguably the best of the four, was deaf, because of his deafness. When Strupe tried out for the team, he noticed that the quarterback shouted the signals every time he was to carry the ball, realizing that the loud signals would be a tip-off to the opposition, Strupper told Heisman, Coach, those loud signals are absolutely unnecessary. You see when sickness in my kid days brought on this deafness my folks gave me the best instructors obtainable to teach me lip-reading, Heisman recalled how Strupper overcame his deafness, He couldnt hear anything but a regular shout. But he could read your lips like a flash, no lad that ever stepped on a football field had keener eyes than Everett had. The enemy found this out the minute he began looking for openings through which to run the ball. Joe Guyon, the teams best passer, was a Chippewa Indian who was born on the White Earth Indian Reservation, his brother, Guyon had played for Pop Warner at Carlisle, and had to sit out the 1916 season in accordance with conference transfer rules. He ran through opponents, in contrast to Struppers dodging style, Judy Harlan said about Guyon, Once in a while the Indian would come out in Joe, such as the nights Heisman gave us a white football and had us working out under the lights. Thats when Guyon would give out the blood curdling war whoops, the Golden Tornado opened its season on September 29 with a doubleheader in three inches of mud
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Walker Carpenter
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Walker Glenn Bill Big Six Carpenter was an American football tackle for John Heismans Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He and teammate Everett Strupper were the first players from the Deep South selected to an All-America team, Carpenter was inducted into the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1965. He is also a member of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, walker was born June 3,1893 in Newnan, Georgia to Starling V. Carpenter and Glenn L. Camp. Carpenter entered The Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall of 1914 and he graduated from Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. His coach John Heisman once said of Carpenter, On three of Georgia Techs greatest teams Bill Carpenter—Big Six—played right tackle in the manner that makes coaches believe that life is good. Even the coaches of the teams we walloped were given to saying that it was worth a beating to watch Bill and he was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. His first year on the team saw Carpenter suffer a serious injury during the Georgia game which caused him to have one of his kidneys removed. It was wondered if he would play football again. Carpenter defied the odds and stepped out on the field for the first game of 1915 against Mercer and he was responsible that year for training new recruits Si Bell, Bill Fincher, and Dan Whelchel. Walker Carpenter at Find a Grave
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Everett Strupper
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George Everett Strupper, Jr. known variously as Ev or Strup or Stroop was an American football player. He played halfback for Georgia Tech from 1915 to 1917, Strupper overcame deafness resulting from a childhood illness and was selected as an All-American in 1917. During Struppers three years playing for Georgia Tech, the compiled a record of 24–0–2 and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 1,135 to 61. In Georgia Techs record-setting 222–0 win over Cumberland College in 1916, for many years,1917 Georgia Tech was considered the greatest football team the South ever produced. Strupper starred as part of a renowned backfield including also Joe Guyon, Judy Harlan, Strupper and teammate Walker Carpenter were the first players from the Deep South selected for an All-America first team. Sportswriter Morgan Blake called Strupper probably the greatest running half-back the South has known, bernie McCarty writes Strupper ranks among the greatest broken-field gallopers in Southern football history. And he caught and threw passes, returned kicks, blocked well and he was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1974. Strupper was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1896 and his parents, G. Everett Strupper, Sr. and Bessie H. Strupper, were both Georgia natives. As of 1910, his father was employed as a manager at an oil company. Stupper attended Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia and he was the star of the schools football team in 1913, and is a member of the schools sports hall of fame. Strupper enrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1914, during his freshman year, Strupper became a member of the Georgia Phi chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He was an athlete competing for Georgia Tech in basketball, football. In 1914, Strupper played for the football team at Georgia Tech. He then played halfback for Georgia Techs varsity football teams head coach John Heisman from 1915 to 1917. Strupper was deaf, and because of his deafness, he called the signals instead of the teams quarterback, Strupper was a small man, with his height being stated in varying accounts to be between five-feet seven inches and five-feet, ten inches. His coach John Heisman later wrote that Strupper was but 5 feet 7 inches in height and he was sometimes known as little Everett Strupper. Georgia Tech never lost a game in which Strupper played, compiling three consecutive undefeated seasons from 1915 to 1917, during Struppers three years playing for Georgia Tech, the team compiled a record of 24–0–2. Only two teams managed a tie – the University of Georgia in 1915 and Washington & Lee in 1916, in those 26 games, Georgia Tech outscored its opponents by a combined score of 1,135 to 61
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Deep South
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The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States. Historically, it is differentiated from the Upper South as being the states most dependent on plantation-type agriculture, the Deep South was also commonly referred to as the Lower South or the Cotton States, for their production of cotton as the primary commodity crop. Today, the Deep South is usually delineated as being those states, the seven states that seceded from the United States before the firing on Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War, and were the first to form the Confederate States of America. Ultimately the Confederacy included eleven states, in order of secession they are, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. The first six states to secede were those that held the largest number of slaves, a large part of the original Cotton Belt. Some of this is coterminous with the Black Belt, originally referring to areas of Alabama and Mississippi with fertile soil. The term came to be used for much of the Cotton Belt, though often used in history books to refer to the seven states that originally formed the Confederacy, the term Deep South did not come into general usage until long after the Civil War ended. Up until that time, Lower South was the designation for those states. This was the part of the South many considered the most Southern, later, the general definition expanded to include all of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and often taking in bordering areas of East Texas and North Florida. Houston is the largest city of the Deep South region and they sometimes served as overseers on plantations. Georgia -1,132,184 out of 3,009,484 people identified as English, making them 37. 62% of the states total. Mississippi -496,481 people out of 1,551,364 people identified as English, making them 32. 00% of the total, the largest national group by a wide margin. Florida -1,132,033 people out of 5,159,967 identified English as their only ancestry group, making them 21. 94% of the total. Louisiana -440,558 people out of 2,319,259 people identified only as English, making them 19. 00% of the total people and the second-largest ancestry group in the state at the time. Those who wrote only French were 480,711 people out of 2,319,259 people, or 20. 73% of the total state population. Texas -1,639,322 people identified as English only out of a total of 7,859,393 people, making them 20. 86% of the people in the state. These figures to do not take into account people who identified as English, when the two were added together, people who self identified as being of English with other ancestry, made up an even larger portion of southerners. South Carolina was settled earlier than those states commonly classified as the Deep South, the map to the right was prepared by the Census Bureau from the 2000 census, it shows the predominant ancestry in each county as self-identified by residents themselves
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Charles Bolen
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Charles Wesley Shifty Bolen was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. While attending Ohio State University, Bolen played three years for both the Ohio State Buckeyes football and Buckeyes basketball teams, in basketball, he was captain of Ohio States 1917–18 team. He was also the coach of the mens basketball team at Ohio Northern from 1919 to 1922. He served for years as an administrator in the Ohio Northern athletic department and was the founder of the universitys intramural sports program. Bolen died in 1953 and was buried at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio
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Paul Robeson
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Paul Leroy Robeson was an American bass singer and actor who became involved with the Civil Rights Movement. He became politically involved in response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism and his advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with communism, and criticism of the United States government caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era. In 1915 Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers College, where he was twice named a consensus All-American and was the class valedictorian. Almost eighty years later, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and he received his LL. B. from Columbia Law School, while playing in the National Football League. At Columbia, he sang and acted in productions, and, after graduating, he became a figure in the Harlem Renaissance with performances in The Emperor Jones. Robeson first appeared outside the US in 1928 in the London premier of Show Boat, Robeson next appeared as Othello in London before becoming an international cinema star during the 1930s through roles in Show Boat and Sanders of the River. He became increasingly attuned to the sufferings of people of other cultures, despite being warned of his economic ruin if he became politically active, he set aside his theatrical career to advocate the cause of the Republican forces of the Spanish Civil War. He then became active in the Council on African Affairs, during World War II, he supported Americas war efforts and won accolades for his portrayal of Othello on Broadway. However, his history of supporting pro-Soviet policies brought scrutiny from the FBI, after the war ended, the CAA was placed on the Attorney Generals List of Subversive Organizations and Robeson was investigated during the age of McCarthyism. Due to his decision not to recant his public advocacy of pro-Soviet policies, he was denied a passport by the U. S. State Department and he moved to Harlem and published a periodical critical of United States policies. His right to travel was restored by the 1958 United States Supreme Court decision, Kent v. Dulles. In the early 1960s he retired and lived the years of his life privately in Philadelphia. Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and his mother was from a prominent Quaker family of mixed ancestry, African, Anglo-American, and Lenape. Robeson had three brothers, William Drew, Jr. Reeve, and Ben, and one sister, in 1900, a disagreement between William and white financial supporters of Witherspoon arose with apparent racial undertones, which were prevalent in Princeton. William, who had the support of his entirely black congregation, the loss of his position forced him to work menial jobs. Three years later when Robeson was six, his mother, who was nearly blind, William found a stable parsonage at the St. Thomas A. M. E. Zion in 1910, where Robeson would fill in for his father during sermons when he was called away. His athletic dominance elicited racial taunts which he ignored, prior to his graduation, he won a statewide academic contest for a scholarship to Rutgers. He took a job as a waiter in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island
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Doc Carlson
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Henry Clifford Doc Carlson is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the mens college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1922 to 1953. At Pitt he compiled a record of 367–247 record, Carlson also led Pitt to the Final Four in 1941. As a student at the university, Carlson was also a First Team All-American end on Pitts football team under coach Pop Warner, Carlson also lettered in basketball and baseball. Carlson was born in Murray City, Ohio and he played high school football, basketball, and baseball at Bellefonte Academy in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. During his undergraduate years at the University of Pittsburgh he earned three letters in basketball, two in baseball, four in football. He played on the 1916 Pitt football team that is regarded as that seasons national champion and was selected as an All-American football player while playing for Pitts undefeated 1917 team. After graduation in 1918, Carlson completed his degree at Pitt in 1920. When in 1922 Andrew Kerr, who was Pitts basketball coach and assistant football coach, left to become head coach at Stanford University. Simultaneously he practiced as a physician for the Carnegie Steel Company, Carlson was famous for his Figure 8 offense, an innovation that many coaches copied. In 1928 Pittsburgh went a perfect 21–0 and the national championship and his Panthers won another national title in 1930. He also led the Panthers to Eastern Intercollegiate Conference championships in four out of the seven years of the conferences existence and he also wrote the book You and Basketball. Carlson became Pitts director of student health services in 1932 and held that position until his retirement in 1953, apart from his brief stint in the NFL, he spent the first 43 years of his adult life at Pitt as a student and coach. He died November 1,1964 at his home in Ligonier, * Eastern Intercollegiate Conference championships between teams with identical records were decided by a one-game playoff in these seasons. Sciullo, Sam, Jr. Pitt,100 Years of Pitt Basketball, cS1 maint, Multiple names, authors list 2008-09 Pittsburgh Mens Basketball Media Guide. Basketball Hall of Fame profile Doc Carlson at Find a Grave
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B. C. Cubbage
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Benjamin Cook Cubbage was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the football coach Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute —now known as Virginia Tech—from 1921 to 1925. Cubbage was also the basketball coach at VPI for one season, in 1923–24. After graduating from Central High School in Philadelphia, Cubbage played college football at Pennsylvania State University as an end and he played professionally as a guard for the Massillon Tigers of the Ohio League during the teams 1919 season. Cubbage at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Alf Cobb
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Alfred Russell Cobb was an American college and professional football player. Cobb played college football for Syracuse University, and later played professionally in the National Football League, Cobb attended Syracuse University, where he played for the Syracuse Orange football team. Cobb played in the days of the NFL, when it was still known as the American Professional Football Association, including for the Akron Pros. As a member of the 1920 Akron Pros, Cobb was a member of the very first NFL Championship team, over three APFA/NFL seasons, Cobb played in 21 games as a lineman, starting 16 of them
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Pete Henry
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Wilbur Francis Pete Henry was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League. He later worked for more than 20 years as director and occasional football coach at Washington & Jefferson College. Henry attended Washington & Jefferson College, where he played for the Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team and he was recognized as a first-term All-American at tackle in 1917, and a consensus All-American in 1918 and 1919. In 1919, the national champion Pittsburgh Panthers argued that Henry was an ineligible college player. A gentlemans agreement among all college teams generally allowed players, like Henry, in fact, Pitt played several other teams with similarly situated players on several teams without complaint. The Panthers stand caused an outcry among the press and the Pitt alumni. In the end, Pitt won the game 7–6, in his later years, Henry was not one to keep souvenirs, but he did keep the program from that game. Henry signed with the Canton Bulldogs on September 17,1920, despite his size and abilities at blocking, Henry was also considered one of the greatest kickers of his era. Statistics for kicks were imprecise at best during that time, however one accurate statistic was that of a 45-yard drop kick field goal kicked by Henry on December 10,1922 and he set a professional football record with that kick that stood for twelve years. Many claimed that both Jim Thorpe and Paddy Driscoll had beaten that record, both supposedly drop-kicking field goals at 50 yards, Driscoll was alleged to have kicked two from 50 yards in one game on September 28,1924. However, these claims could not be supported by any verifiable records, Henry was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. In 1931, Henry was hired as the director for Washington & Jefferson College. As the college and football team struggled during World War II, as AD, he wanted every student to participate in some form of athletics and required every student to know how to swim. He personally raised substantial funds for the Gambolier Fund to pay for scholarships and he continued to work, even after losing a leg to diabetes. Henry was inducted into the Dapper Dan Clubs Pittsburgh Sports Hall of Fame in 1967 and he is also enshrined in the Helms Sports Hall of Fame as well as the College Football Hall of Fame. Upon his death, Henry was eulogized in W&Js college newspaper, the Red & Black, as capturing the very spirit of Wash Jeff and, for many people was the College
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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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John Beckett (American football)
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John Wesley Jack Beckett was an American football tackle who played for the University of Oregon and Mare Island. Born in rural northeastern Oregon, Beckett attended Eugene High School in Eugene before enrolling at the University of Oregon, although primarily used as an offensive tackle, Beckett excelled at several positions, occasionally playing halfback and punter. Beckett was the captain in his senior year of 1916 and was named to the all-Pacific Coast Conference team. He led the team to a record and tie for the conference championship with the University of Washington. Oregon was chosen to represent the conference in the 1917 Rose Bowl where they defeated Pennsylvania 14-0, Beckett stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 191 pounds. With the United States entry in World War I, Beckett joined the Marines in his senior year and he joined the Mare Island football team, coached by Becketts Oregon coach Hugo Bezdek, and was selected as team captain. With the U. S. at war, the 1918 Rose Bowl featured two teams, Becketts Mare Island team and the U. S. Armys Camp Lewis team. Beckett is the person to have been the captain of two different Rose Bowl teams. Beckett served 50 years in the Marines, coaching Marine teams at Mare Island, Quantico and he achieved a final the rank of brigadier general. He also spent two seasons in the National Football League with the Buffalo All-Americans and Columbus Panhandles. Beckett was named to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972 and he died in La Jolla, California in 1981. John Beckett at the College Football Hall of Fame Career statistics and player information from Pro-Football-Reference • Databasefootball. com
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Albert Benbrook
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Albert Benny Benbrook was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1908–1910. He was chosen by Walter Camp as an All-American in 1909 and 1910 and was the captain in 1910. He is considered one of the best college football linemen in the years of the sport. Benbrook was a native of Benbrook, TX and moved to Chicago in 1898 and he was a “weight man” and football player at Chicago’s prestigious Morgan Park Academy before enrolling at Michigan. Benbrook played on the team as a freshman in 1907. As a sophomore in 1908, he was the second heaviest man on the team behind the team’s captain Germany Schulz, in 1909, Benbrook started all seven of the Wolverines’ games at left guard and was the team’s only All-American. He helped lead the team to a 6-1 record, including wins over Ohio State, Syracuse, Penn, the team’s only loss was an 11-3 defeat against Notre Dame on November 6,1909. No other team scored more than six points against the Wolverines that year, in 1909, Benbrook drew attention when he announced that he wanted to challenge heavyweight champion Jack Johnson to a boxing match. He was the first Midwestern lineman to be named to Walter Camp’s All-American in both 1909 and 1910, in 1909 he was the unanimous choice of thirteen eastern critics who met to select the All-American team by a majority vote. In January 1910, Benbrook was elected captain of the Michigan team and he initially lost a close election to end, J. Joy Miller, but Miller was barred from the team. Miller was removed by the faculty when it was learned he had failed to enroll in classes in the fall of 1909, ultimately, the 1910 season was an unsatisfying one. In one of the lowest scoring seasons in history, the team scored only 29 points. They played to a tie against Penn, and played to 3-3 ties against both Ohio State and Case. The final game of the 1910 season was the Little Brown Jug game against Minnesota. Fielding H. Yost rated the 1910 Minnesota game as one of “the greatest game he ever saw. ”According to accounts of the game, Benbrook and Stanfield Wells were “at their very peak that day, ” as Michigan won, 6-0. There was no score late in the game, when a forward pass took Michigan to the Minnesota three-yard line, after Michigan ran twice without success, Benbrook called for a run to his side. Pushing Minnesota tacklers aside he opened a hole that led to a touchdown, the University of Michigan Athletics History web site describes Benbrook’s contributions this way, “Football critics regard Benbrook as the first of the great running guards. Despite his giant 240 pound frame, Benbrook moved with cat-like quickness and was faster than most backs, Walter Eckersall described Benbrook as the greatest guard in history
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Eugene Neeley
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Eugene Gentry Guy Neeley was an American football player. Despite having only one arm, he played football at the guard position for Dartmouth College and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1917 College Football All-America Team. Neeley was born in 1896 in Comanche, Texas, and raised in Dallas, Texas and his parents were Richard V. Neely and Opelia Gentry. He lost his arm in a hunting accident in approximately 1911. His arm was cut off above the elbow, Neeley enrolled in Dartmouth College in 1915. Neeley played football for Dartmouths freshman team in 1915 and it was reported at the time that he was probably the only one-armed football player in the country. Neeley then played for the Dartmouth Big Green football varsity team during the 1916 and 1917 football seasons, by October 1916, he had won a reputation as the best man in Dartmouths line. He reportedly used the stub of his right arm with telling effect in blocking. Despite his handicap, he was able to intercept and return a forward pass, later described by Life magazine as a spectacular play. After the 1917 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team guard on the 1917 College Football All-America Team, after leaving Dartmouth, Neeley returned to Texas. He was married shortly after returning to Texas, and he, in 1920, he was living in Comanche, Texas, working as an oil dealer. In 1930, he was living in Dallas and working as a securities broker, in 1940, he was living in Dallas and working as a loan agent for life insurance. In 1942, he was employed by the Federal Housing Administration in Dallas, Neeley died in Dallas in 1949 at the age of 53
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Jock Sutherland
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John Bain Jock Sutherland was an American football player and coach. He coached college football at Lafayette College and the University of Pittsburgh and professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. A native of Coupar Angus in Scotland, Sutherland got his start in football by playing end at the University of Pittsburgh, commonly known as Pitt, Sutherland was named an All-American and played on Pitts national championship teams in 1915 and 1916. Sutherland also played on Pitts undefeated 1917 team, the 1917 team was known as The Fighting Dentists because on occasion every position was filled by dental students. The dental students on the 1917 team included Sutherland, Katy Easterday, Skip Gougler, Tank McLaren, Sutherland also lettered in wrestling and captained the track & field team at Pitt for which he specialized in the hammer throw, discus, and shot put. He was also a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Psi Omega national dental fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, and the Druids Society, Sutherland graduated from the University of Pittsburghs School of Dentistry, where he also held a professorship in the instruction of bridge and crown. In 1919, Sutherland played in a few games with the Massillon Tigers of the Ohio League, however he soon left the team and began his head coaching career at Lafayette College from 1919 to 1923, leading the Leopards to the 1921 Eastern Collegiate Championship. In 1924, Sutherland replaced Pop Warner, his coach and mentor. Sutherland, who was described as a hero in a Saturday Evening Post article, became a highly admired. On offense, he ran a double-wing formation known as the Sutherland Scythe and he was known for his calm and direct demeanor, never shouting or ranting to motivate his team. During his tenure, Sutherlands teams were named Eastern football champions seven times including 1925,1927,1929,1931,1934,1936, during this time, Pitt appeared in four Rose Bowl games and turned down a bid for the 1938 Rose Bowl. Sutherlands teams were named National Champions by various selectors for nine different seasons including 1925,1927,1929,1931,1933,1934,1936,1937, bowmans moves, which resulted in Sutherlands departure, were controversial among students and supporters of the football program. His.812 winning percentage is also the 5th best such mark during the first 20 years of any coaches career and he is also tied for the 23rd fewest games to reach 100 victories, accomplished in his 132nd game as coach. Sutherland later coached in the National Football League with the Brooklyn Dodgers for two seasons, 1940–41, before leaving the team to serve the United States during World War II, during the war, Sutherland served in the United States Navy and achieved the rank of Lieutenant commander. Upon returning to the United States, Sutherland landed with the Pittsburgh Steelers and he led the Steelers to their first playoff appearance in 1947. He was flown back to Pittsburgh for further treatment, an exploratory surgery was required to determine whether he was suffering from a hemorrhage or a tumor. Sutherland died in Pittsburgh on April 11,1948, following surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor and he is interred in Pittsburghs Homewood Cemetery. Sutherland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a coach and he is memorialized on the Pitt campus with a street, Sutherland Drive, and the student residence Sutherland Hall
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Frank Culver
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Frank Ward Culver was an All-American football player for the University of Michigan. A native of Detroit, Culver played for the Michigan Wolverines under Fielding H. Yost in 1917 and 1919. As a sophomore in 1917, he started three games at tackle, four games at left guard, and one game at right guard. After the 1917 season, Culver entered the service. After the war, Culver returned to Michigan, in 1919, he started one game at guard and three games at center. Culver graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and practiced as an attorney, Culver died in the courtroom in 1956. List of Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Bentley Library profile and photograph of Frank Culver
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H. M. Grey
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Hugh Morton Wooly Grey was an American college sports coach. He served as the coach for Davidson Colleges football and mens basketball teams as well as the schools athletic director. Grey compiled overall records of 10–15–5 in football and 9–8 in basketball, Grey attended Davidson, in 1917 receiving All-Southern honors for his play on the football team from selectors John Heisman and Dick Jemison. He was also an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin and he also coached the Bailey Military Institute in South Carolina for the 1918-19 seasons. He died while on vacation to visit a son in Venice, H. M. Grey at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Ernest Allmendinger
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Ernest J. Aqua Allmendinger was an All-American college football player and coach. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Allmendinger played right guard and right tackle at Ann Arbor High School and he acquired the nickname Aqua after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews. Allmendinger played the position at the University of Michigan from 1911 to 1913. In November 1913, Allmendinger helped Michigan to a 17–0 win over Cornell leading The Washington Post to report, three hundred Michigan rooters, headed by their brass band, paraded and snake-danced after the game. At the end of the 1913 season, Allmendinger was picked as an All-Western guard on all of the honorary All-Western teams. His quiet temperament was the handicap and during these years Coach Yost declared that if Allmendinger could get good and mad once, the third season Yost became desperate. Allmendinger was one of prominent football players commissioned at Fort Sheridan in the fall of 1917, others included former Michigan All-Americans Albert Benbrook. On Thanksgiving Day 1917, with the top players in the military. Almmendinger was the right tackle on the Army team. Because of the war, Walter Camp did not select an All-America team in 1917, instead, Camp named an All-America service team in 1917, recognizing the countrys top football players serving in the military. Allmendinger was named to Camps 1917 All-Service team, Allmendinger rose to the rank of captain before being discharged in 1919. He also worked as an assistant football coach at Michigan during the 1919 season, Allmendinger received a forestry degree from the University of Michigan and worked in the western forests after graduating. He later worked for 34 years as an engineer for the Washtenaw County Road Commission from 1921 to 1954, list of Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Bentley Library profile and photograph of Ernest Allmendinger
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Paul Withington
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Withington was an American football player and coach. He was the coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a season in 1916 and at Columbia University for part of one season in 1924. Withington attended Harvard University where he played football as a guard and he received his bachelors degree from Havard in 1909, and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1914. Withington is notable as the coach in collegiate history to be a head coach at the same time as working as a doctor. In 1914, he published the book The Book of Athletics. Withington married Constance Restarick in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 18,1911, in 1917, he entered the U. S. Army Medical Corps. He was in charge of athletics at Camp Funston, playing on the football team, Withington was awarded the Legion of Merit by the U. S. He was also a lieutenant in the Royal Medical Corps of the British Army. Paul Withington at the College Football Data Warehouse Paul Withington at the Internet Movie Database
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Pup Phillips
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George Marshall Pup Phillips was an American football player and coach. George Marshall Phillips was born on September 24,1895 in Carnesville, Georgia to George Sullivan Phillips, Phillips was a prominent center for John Heismans Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a starter for the 1916 Georgia Tech team which, as one writer wrote, the season included the 222 to 0 rout of Cumberland. Phillips that year was the first Tech center elected All-Southern and he was a member of Techs first national championship team in 1917 which outscored opponents 491 to 17. Phillips received the Hal Nowell trophy for the most efficient play during the season and he left to join the American effort in the First World War as a marine just a week after celebrating the national championship. Phillips played again in 1919, when he was captain, dick Jemison selected Phillips first-team All-American. Phillips coached the University School for Boys
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Tim Callahan (American football)
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John Timothy Callahan was an American football player. He attended preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and he played college football at the guard position for the Yale Bulldogs in 1916 and 1919 to 1920, and was a consensus first-team selection on the 1920 College Football All-America Team. His education at Yale was interrupted during World War I by service as a pilot in the Naval Aviation Corps and he was stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, and later in South America, before being discharged in 1919. Callahan was captain of the 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team while his brother Henry Mike Callahan was captain of the 1920 Princeton Tigers football team
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Paul Des Jardien
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Paul Raymond Shorty Des Jardien was an American football, baseball and basketball player. He played for the University of Chicago where he was selected as the first-team All-American center in both 1913 and 1914 and also pitched a no-hitter for the baseball team. He later played baseball for the Cleveland Indians and professional football for the Cleveland Indians, Hammond Pros, Chicago Tigers. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955, Des Jardien was born in Coffeyville, Kansas and moved to Chicago as a child. While attending the University of Chicago, Des Jardien was 6 feet,5 inches tall and weighed 190 pounds, in baseball Des Jardien was a pitcher, but also played at first and third base. The University of Chicago Magazine wrote, Des Jardien at third base fields well, all in all, the tall young man is one of the most excellent athletes Chicago has had in years. In May 1914 he threw a no-hitters and struck out 14 Iowa Hawkeyes batters in a game, Des Jardien gained his greatest fame playing at the center position for Amos Alonzo Staggs Chicago Maroons football teams from 1912 to 1914. Des Jardien played at the position on both offense and defense, was considered the mainstay of his team on defense, and was also known for his ability as a long punter. During Des Jardiens three years as Chicagos center, the Maroons compiled a record of 17–3–1, including an undefeated 7–0 record, after his sophomore year in 1912, Des Jardien was selected as a first-team All-Western player. Stagg praised Des Jardien as a player and as flashy a center as I have seen in many years. In naming Des Jardien to his All-Western team in 1912, E. C. Patterson in Colliers wrote, Des Jardien is not great of bulk and he is tall and rangy and remarkably active. His usefulness is accentuated when it is seen some of Coach Staggs forward pass tricks center around him. In his junior and senior years of 1913 and 1914, Des Jardien was selected as a first-team All-American and he was also chosen by his teammates as the captain of the 1914 football team. In 1914 Walter Camp wrote about Des Jardien, calling him the best center in the country — steady, reliable, absolutely dependable for his share of work on attack. The New York Times reported in January 1915 that Des Jardien had agreed to play baseball for the Chicago Cubs upon graduating from the University of Chicago in June 1915. According to the report, Des Jardien declined to sign a contract with the Cubs to avoid endangering his amateur status, the report described Des Jardien as one of the best pitchers in the Western Conference, a right-hander with a good curve ball. Instead of playing Major League Baseball in the summer of 1915, the team played 15 games, winning 12, while traveling to the West Coast of the United States. The team next sailed to Japan, on September 24,1915, the Chicago squad played a double header in front of a crowd of 20,000 people in Tokyo
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Lud Wray
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James R. Ludlow Lud Wray was a professional American football player, coach, and co-founder, with college teammate Bert Bell, of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was the first coach of the Boston Braves in 1932 and of the Eagles and his career coaching record was 13–25–3. Wray played his football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned All-American honors. He also played the position of center for the Buffalo Niagaras, Buffalo Prospects, in 1920 and 1921, Buffalo was a member of the National Football League
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Benny Boynton
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The Purple Streak, was a professional football player who played during the early years of the National Football League. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962 and he played in the NFL for the Washington Senators, Rochester Jeffersons and Buffalo Bisons. Benny was born in Waco, Texas, in 1898, to Charles and he began his football career at Waco High School in 1912. During his sophomore year, Boynton became the starting quarterback. While playing for Waco, he had a reputation as a halfback, an accurate and strong passer, a strong punter. After high school, Boynton attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in his sophomore year, Boynton led the schools football team to a 7–0–1 season, for their first undefeated season in school history. At the end of the season, he was honored with his first All-American selection and it was then that Ephs fan started referring to Boynton as “the Purple Streak”, a play on his quick ability and the schools colors, purple and gold. He sat out his season of football, instead serving in World War I as a gunnery sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. He returned to college in 1919 and was named captain of the football team, during his senior year, Boynton led the Eastern colleges in scoring, compiling 143 points on 22 touchdowns and 9 extra points. In one game, he scored six touchdowns during a 62–0 win over Trinity College and he ran a missed field goal the length of the field,110 yards, for a touchdown against Hamilton. After that season, Boynton was chosen to Walter Camps All-America team, after graduating from college in 1921, Boynton took a job at Bethlehem Steel, located in Steelton, Pennsylvania. While working there, he was recruited by Leo Lyons, manager of the NFLs Rochester Jeffersons, Boynton accepted Lyonss offer to play for the Jeffs. Boynton played just three games for the Jeffs that season but still scored two touchdowns, eight points and a field goal. He also threw for three more scores, with NFL contacts not being what they are today, Boynton also played with the NFLs Washington Senators during the 1921 season, scoring a touchdown and three more extra points. Also in 1921, the independent Holmesburg Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, during the 1922 season Boynton only played in one game with the Jeffs. Instead he decided to play baseball in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1923, the independent, pre-NFL version of the Pottsville Maroons added Boynton to their roster, however he made his return to the NFL in 1924. His return though sparked a dispute between Lyons and the new owners of the Buffalo Bisons, both claimed to have signed Boynton for the 1924 season
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Bill Ingram
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William A. Bill Ingram was an American football player and coach. Ingrams 1926 Navy team went 9–0–1 and was recognized as a champion by the Boand System. Ingram was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1973 and he died in his sleep while serving as a Major in the Marine Corps. From 1923 to 1925, he guided Indiana to a 10–12–1 record, at Navy he posted a 32–13–4 record. These totals included his 1926 team, which finished with a 9–0–1 record and he coached at California and won 27 games in four years. Bill Ingram at the College Football Hall of Fame Bill Ingram at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Archie Weston
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Archie Bruce Beak Weston was an American football player who was a quarterback for the University of Michigan in 1917 and a halfback in 1919. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1917 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Walter Eckersall, Weston was born in Alpena, Michigan to Frank and Jane Weston. He was raised in Sault Ste, marie, and was a star player on Sault Ste. Marie High Schools 1913 state championship football team, marie “Blue Devils” were a football powerhouse with Weston. We blasted all of them and loved doing it. ”Weston was asked about a 1913 newspaper report that he had been tackled by a woman during a 24-7 win over Alpena. He recalled the incident, ”The game was played there, and we were too rough to suit them. I was running around the end toward the Alpena side of the field. There was nobody near me as I ran the end, and all of a sudden, this woman dives from the sideline and drops me for no gain. Well, I was so surprised I couldn’t get up at first. ”Weston began the 1917 college football season as a substitute quarterback for Fielding H. Yosts University of Michigan football team. Cliff Sparks started the first two games as Michigans quarterback, with Lowell Genebach as his substitute, Sparks was injured in the second game of the season, and Yost gave Weston the start against Mount Union College. Weston seized the opportunity and put on a display that attracted national attention. On the second play of the game, Weston straight-armed and dodged the entire Mount Union team, Weston scored a total of five touchdowns in the first two quarters and led the Wolverines to a 69-0 win over Mount Union. Following the game, one called him a sensation under the headline. An Iowa newspaper also took note of Westons debut, Weston brought his rating up from that of a substitute quarterback to that of the star of Yosts men. He played a game despite his handicap of weighing only 143 pounds. He is the lightest and fastest man on the team, Weston won the starting quarterback position and led the Wolverines in the next six games, outscoring their opponents by a combined score of 234 to 3. After his first three starts, Weston faced a major test against a strong Nebraska team, in a profile of the Wolverines published the week before the game, The Lincoln Daily Star focused on Weston, Weston is continuing to improve at the quarterback. Work seems to agree with him, he has put on three pounds of weight since he became famous two weeks ago, being no longer the lightest man on the squad, leading the Wolverines to a 20-0 win over Nebraska, his reputation continued to grow
