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1908 College Football All-America Team
The 1908 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1908 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 14 years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1908 All-America Team was published in ''Collier's Weekly'', and Whitney's selections were published in ''Outing'' magazine. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910. ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' published a consensus All-America team based on the first-team All-America selections made by 25 football experts. Consensus All-Americans The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions. The original use of the term ''All-America'' seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and published in ''This Week's Sports''. Football pioneer Walter Camp also began selecting All-America teams in the 1890s and was recognized as the official selector in the early years of the 20th century. NCAA recognition As of 2009, the College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), '' The Sporting News'' (''TSN''), ''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI''), '' Pro Football Weekly'' (''PFW''), ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), '' College Football News'' (''CFN''), ProFootballFocus (PFF), Rivals.com, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider
Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider (November 26, 1887 – May 14, 1956) was an American football player and a vice admiral in the United States Navy. A native of Westminster, Maryland, Reifsnider attended the United States Naval Academy where he played college football at the end position for the Navy Midshipmen football team. He was selected by Walter Camp in 1908 as a second-team All-American. He graduated in 1910 and was commissioned as an ensign on March 7, 1912. After graduating from the Naval Academy, Reifsnider served in the United States Navy until December 1949, attaining the rank of vice admiral. He served as a submarine commander in World War I, aboard the USS ''O-5'' and USS ''E-2'' submarines, and was awarded the Navy Cross. He later commanded the cruiser USS ''Memphis'', served as chief of the United States Naval Mission in Colombia, as chief of the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Training Command, and as commandant of the Eighth Naval district in New Orleans. He receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Tobin
Clark W. Tobin (January 1, 1887 – January 25, 1952) was an American college football player and coach. Biography Tobin played college football at Dartmouth College in 1909 and 1910. He was the captain of the 1909 Dartmouth football team and was selected as a first-team All-American at the guard position in 1909. Tobin also served as the head football coach at Tufts College in 1911. Tobin was a native of South Boston. During World War I, he served as a captain in the infantry of the United States Army Reserve at Camp Meade Camp George G. Meade near Middletown, Pennsylvania, was a camp established and subsequently abandoned by the U.S. Volunteers during the Spanish–American War. History Camp Meade was established August 24, 1898, and soon thereafter was occupi .... He later served as an executive vice president and sales manager for Propper-McCallum Hostery Company, Inc., in New York. Tobin died in 1952 at age 65. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tobin, Clark 1880s bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard O'Rourke
Bernard John O'Rourke (March 1886 – June 12, 1941) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Cornell University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-America Team. O'Rourke was born in 1886 and raised in Syracuse, New York. He attended Cornell University from 1907 to 1909 and played on the Cornell Big Red football team. He was selected as a consensus first-team guard on the 1908 College Football All-America Team. While attending Cornell, he was a member of and Dunstan, Aleph Samach, and Rod and Bob.1910 Cornellian (Cornell yearbook), page 367, listing Bernard John O'Rourke. After graduating from Cornell, he coached the Cornell football team for three years and also coached the football team at Johns Hopkins University. After World War I, O'Rourke moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he lived for the rest of his life and was married to Medora Altemus. He operated a contracting firm with his brother an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Goebel (American Football)
William Arthur Goebel (June 24, 1887 – February 15, 1960) was an American football player. He played college football at Yale University and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1908 College Football All-America Team. Goebel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887. He was the son of Justus Goebel, the owner of a wholesale and retail carpet business known as Lowry & Goebel. Goebel received his preparatory education at Union High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and in private studies in Cincinnati. He attended college at Yale University, where he was a member of the football, track and wrestling teams. As a guard for the Yale Bulldogs football team, he was a consensus first-team selection for the 1908 College Football All-America Team. He also won wrestling championships in 1907 and 1909 and was elected president of the Wrestling Association during his senior year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta Kappa Epsilon (), commonly known as ''DKE'' or ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlin Andrus
Hamlin Foster Andrus (March 30, 1885July 9, 1957) was an American football player and financier. He played college football at Yale University from 1908 to 1909 and was selected as a consensus All-American at the guard position in 1909. Andrus was the son of John Emory Andrus, a U.S. Congressman and millionaire. After graduating from Yale in 1910, Andrus pursued a variety of financial interests. He also worked with his father in operating the Arlington Chemical Company (later known as U.S. Vitamin Corporation) and was also a trustee of the SURDNA Foundation, a philanthropic endowment corporation formed by his father. He also held a patent on machinery for the manufacture of concrete blocks. In March 1911, Andrus married Mary F. Hotchkiss. They had a daughter, Julia Dyckman Andrus. Andrus lived for most of his life in Yonkers, New York. He moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1950. He died in 1957 at the age of 72 either at his farm in Bristol, New Hampshire Bristol is a town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Brides
Arthur E. Brides (October 31, 1885 – September 26, 1937) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1909 to 1910 and at Massachusetts Agricultural College—now the University of Massachusetts Amherst—from 1912 to 1915, compiling a career head coaching record of 20–23–4. Brides was born on October 31, 1885, in Brockton, Massachusetts Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population is 105,643 as of the 2020 United States Census. Along with Plymouth, it is one of the two county seats of Plymouth County. It is the sixth-largest city in Massac .... He died on September 26, 1937, in Stoughton, Massachusetts, of a heart attack. Head coaching record References External links * 1885 births 1937 deaths American football guards American football tackles Columbia Lions football coaches North Carolina Tar Heels football coac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McKay (American Football)
Robert Gordon McKay (May 3, 1887November 26, 1958) was an American football player and investment banker. He played college football for the Harvard Crimson football team from 1908 to 1910 and was selected as a first-team All-American football player in 1908 and 1910. He later became an investment banker in New York. Early years McKay was born in 1887 in either Frankfort, Maine, or Paris, France. He was the son of Gordon McKay and Baroness Marion Treat von Bruning. He attended preparatory school at the Phillips Academy, before enrolling at Harvard College. Harvard McKay played college football at the tackle position for the Harvard Crimson football team from 1908 to 1910. In 1908, he was selected as an All-American by ''The Christian Science Monitor''. In 1909, he was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp, and in 1910, he was selected as a first-team All-American by Camp. He also played for the Harvard Crimson baseball team as a pitcher. Later years After gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Pullen
Daniel Dee Pullen (April 27, 1885 – September 22, 1923) was an American football player and an officer in the United States Army. Biography Pullen was born in La Push, Washington, the second of four children and oldest of three sons born to Harriet (née Smith; 1860–1947) and Daniel Webster Pullen. The family moved to Skagway, Alaska in 1897 after the death of the elder Daniel Pullen. He attended the University of Washington, where he played college football. He then enrolled in the United States Military Academy where he gained fame as a Tackle (American football), tackle for the Army Black Knights football team. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1906 by the ''New York World'' (chosen by Robert W. Edgren), and in 1908 by T. A. Dwight Jones, Fielding H. Yost, and the ''Kansas City Journal''. Pullen received a Distinguished Service Cross (United States), Distinguished Service Cross for his service in World War I. According to the citation, he displayed "ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dexter Draper
Dexter Wright Draper (May 23, 1881 – August 22, 1961) was an American football player and coach, as well as a pediatrician. He was an All-American tackle at the University of Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1907. Draper became head football coach at the University of Texas immediately following the resignation of W. E. Metzenthin in 1909. After compiling a 4–3–1 record, including two losses to Longhorns rival Texas A&M, Draper resigned. He later coached at Franklin & Marshall College and The College of William & Mary before entering his chosen field as a pediatrician. Draper also was the head coach for the William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team from 1913 to 1916.William & Mary men's basketball history - Media Guide 2007-08 . Accessed March 24, 2008. He led the Tribe to a 15–18 record du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Northcroft
Percy Wilfred Northcroft (August 31, 1886 – December 20, 1967) was an American football player and Naval officer. He played tackle for the Navy Midshipmen football team from 1905 to 1908 and was selected as an All-American in 1906 and 1908. He later served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. Biography Northcroft was a native of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He enrolled at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in June 1905 and played at the tackle position for the Navy Midshipmen football team from 1905 to 1908. Northcroft also competed in the weight events for the Academy's track and field team and was elected as captain of the track team in May 1908. In 1906, Northcroft helped lead the Navy football team to a record of 8–2–2 and a 10–0 victory over Army. In the season-ending win over Army, Northcroft kicked a field goal that was variously reported to have been from the 42-yard line or the 48-yard line. One observer later recalled that Northcroft's long k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Horr
Marquis Franklin "Bill" Horr (May 2, 1880 – July 1, 1955) was an American football player, coach, and Olympic track and field athlete. He played college football as a tackle at Syracuse University and was selected as an All-American in 1908. At Syracuse, Horr also competed in track and field. At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, he won a silver medal in the Greek Style discus throw and a bronze in the freestyle discus throw. Horr served as the head football coach at Northwestern University in 1909 and at Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and ... from 1910 to 1912, compiling a career record of 9–14–2. Head coaching record References External links Syracuse football profile* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Horr, Bill 1880 births 1955 deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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