Raymond D. Starbuck (June 26, 1878 – August 16, 1965) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player and coach and railroad executive. Born in Fort Ann, New York, and raised in Glen Falls, New York, Starbuck attended

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

. He played fullback on the Cornell Big Red football team in 1899 and 1900. He was captain of the football team in 1899 and 1900 and was selected as an consensus All-American in 1900. In 1899, he led the Cornell team to its first victory over Princeton in the history of the rivalry. He served as the head coach of Cornell's football team in 1901 and 1902, compiling a record of 19–4. He worked for the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1949, eventually becoming an executive vice president and director. He retired in 1949 and died in 1965 at age 87 in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in W ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Starbuck, Raymond 1878 births 1965 deaths 19th-century players of American football American football fullbacks Cornell Big Red football coaches Cornell Big Red football players All-American college football players People from Fort Ann, New York Sportspeople from Glens Falls, New York Players of American football from New York (state)