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Patrick John "Kangaroo Kicker" O'Dea was an Australian rules and American football player and coach. An Australian by birth, O'Dea played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in t
O'Dea during his tenure as coach of Notre Dame, 1901
Photo session of O'Dea while playing at the University of Wisconsin, c. 1898
The 1898 All-America college football team is composed of American football players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose All-America college foo
Pat O'Dea
…Notre Dame 1902 Missouri 1903 Kirksville Osteopaths Head coaching record Overall 24–10–2 Accomplishments and honors Awards Second-team All-American (1898) Third-team All-American (1899) College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1962 (profile) Australian rules football career Personal information Original…
Penn guard Truxtun Hare also won the silver medal in the hammer throw in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Michigan's William Cunningham (pictured) and Chicago's Clarence Herschberger were the first two players from western schools to be named to the All-America team.
Gordon "Skim" Brown of Yale captained the 1900 Yale football team which was referred to as the "Team of the Century".
Harvard quarterback Charles Dudley Daly later served as Boston's Fire Commissioner.