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1905 College Football All-America Team
The 1905 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1905 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for ''Collier's Weekly'' and Caspar Whitney for ''Outing Magazine''. All-American selections for 1905 Ends * Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (WC-2; CW-1) * Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth (WC-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) * Thomas Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYG) * Izzy Levene, Penn (WC-3; NYW; NYG) * Bobby Marshall, Minnesota (WC-2) * Norman Tooker, Princeton (WC-3) Tackles * Karl Brill, Harvard (CW-1; NYW) * Otis Lamson, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYW; NYG; NYEP; NYT; NYG) * Beaton Squires, Harvard (WC-1) * James Cooney (American football), James Cooney, Princeton (NYT) * Robert Forbes (American football), Robert Forbes, Yale (WC-2) * Joe Curtis, Michigan (WC-2) * Wilson ... [...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, and Scout.c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Lamson
Otis Floyd Lamson (September 13, 1876 – December 11, 1956) was an American football player and coach, and also a surgeon. Early life Lamson was born in Beetown, Wisconsin, in 1876. Football career Lamson served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1907. Prior to his coaching career, Lamson played college football while attending the University of Pennsylvania. He lettered for the Quakers in 1904 and 1905. In 1905, he earned All-American honors from Walter Camp. In 1906, Lamson was hired by the Massillon Tigers to play for the team in the "Ohio League" championship. During that two-game series, a betting scandal involving the Tigers and their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, arose. Head coaching record Medical career Lamson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1907, after which he practiced medicine in Seattle for 41 years, until his retirement in 1952. He was one of the best-known surgeons in the wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Eckersall
Walter Herbert "Eckie" Eckersall (June 17, 1883 – March 24, 1930) 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 Camp's "All-Time All-America Team" honoring the greatest college football players during the sport's formative years. He was selected to Camp's All-American teams in 1904, 1905, and 1906. Early life Walter Eckersall was born in Chicago on June 17, 1883. He grew up in its Woodlawn neighborhood just south of the University of Chicago. His talent emerged at Hyde Park High School, where he dashed in 10.0 seconds, an Illinois record for 25 years, and excelled on the football field. In 1903, he quarterbacked Hyde Park to an undefeated season and then led the squad to a 105–0 trouncing of Brooklyn Polytechnic at Marshall Field on December 5 to claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Torrey
Robert Grant Torrey (July 12, 1878 – January 12, 1941) was an American football player and coach. He played center and was selected as the captain of the University of Pennsylvania's unbeaten teams of 1904 and 1905. When the Quakers went 12–0 in 1904, only Swarthmore was able to score against them. Torrey was considered one of the best linemen in 1905 and later won All-American honors. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Biography Torrey was from Montclair, New Jersey, where he attended Montclair High School. He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902 and played four years of varsity football for the Penn Quakers. As a freshman in 1902, he played at the tackle position, but he was moved to end in 1903. He played center and was selected as the captain of Penn's unbeaten teams of 1904 and 1905. He was selected by his teammates as the captain of the 1905 Penn football team and was selected by Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney as a first-te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiny Maxwell
Robert Wallace "Tiny" Maxwell (September 7, 1884 – June 30, 1922) was a professional football player and referee. He was also a sports editor with the ''Philadelphia Public Ledger''. Biography Early life Maxwell was born in Chicago on September 7, 1884. He is known to have had a sister named Katerine Doust at the time of his death. Maxwell began his athletic career at Englewood High School. There he excelled in football and track and field. He also played the mandolin and was a student actor in the school's Shakespearean plays. College Before playing professional football, Maxwell played at the college level while attending the University of Chicago. He played for the Maroons in 1902, under coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, who recruited Maxwell for his size and style of play. Maxwell weighed 240 pounds, in an era when the average offensive lineman weighed under 200 pounds. Maxwell's struggle with a speech impediment made his physical presence less intimidating and in fact increa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Schulte
Henry Frank Schulte (February 4, 1879 – October 18, 1944) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track and field. Schulte played football at Washington University in St. Louis from 1898 to 1900 and at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1905 and later coached football and track and field at Eastern Michigan University (1906–1908), Southeast Missouri State University (1909-1911), University of Missouri (1914–1919), and University of Nebraska (1919–1938). Schulte was often referred to by the nickname "Indian" Schulte, though he was of German rather than Native American descent. Biography Early years Schulte was born in 1879 in St. Louis County, Missouri. Football player Schulte played football at Smith Academy in St. Louis and then at Washington University in St. Louis. Charges of not being a bona fide student were lobbied against Schulte in 1900 by Missouri School of Mines and by C. B. C., leading to the expulsion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Thompson
Elmer Thompson (c. 1885 – February 1929) was an American football player. He played for Cornell University from 1905 to 1907 and was selected as a first-team All-American in both 1906 and 1907. Biography Thompson grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut and played three years of football at Andover. He was also a "weight man" for Andover's track team, competing in the hammer throw and shot put. Thompson was the captain of Andover's football team as a senior, and in April 1903, the ''Boston Evening Transcript'' reported that he had been "much sought after" due to "his splendid" work on the Andover football team. He initially committed to attend Yale University, but changed his mind and enrolled at Cornell University. He played at the guard position for Cornell football team from 1905 to 1907, and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1906 and 1907. He weighed "close to 250 pounds," and ''The New York Times'' described him as "one of the largest men who ever played on a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Von Kersberg
Harry Edwin Von Kersburg (October 14, 1884 – 1951) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1913, compiling a record of 3–6. Kersburg was a football player and later an assistant coach at Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le .... Head coaching record References {{DEFAULTSORT:Von Kersberg, Harry 1884 births Year of death missing American football guards Harvard Crimson football coaches Harvard Crimson football players Holy Cross Crusaders football coaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roswell Tripp
Roswell Tripp (January 1884 – December 1962) was an American football player. Tripp attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he drew his attention for his talent as a football player. Tripp enrolled at the University of Chicago and played at the tackle for Amos Alonzo Stagg's 1902 football team. In January 1903, Tripp transferred to Yale University, where he played guard for Yale University's football teams in 1904 and 1905 after sitting out the 1903 season. He was captain of Yale's championship team of 1905, and was selected by Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) 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 sport's line of scrimmage and the system ... as a first-team All-American in 1905. He later worked as a stockbroker He died in October 1962. References All-American college football players American fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Burr
Francis Hardon Burr (September 15, 1886 – December 5, 1910) was an American football player. He was a first-team All-American guard in 1906 and captain of the 1908 Harvard Crimson football team. After he died of typhoid fever in 1910, the Francis H. Burr Award was established in his honor. Biography Burr was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Herman M. Burr. He attended the Phillips-Andover Academy before enrolling at Harvard University in 1905. He was a starter at the guard position for the Harvard football team for four years from 1905 to 1908 and also did the punting and place-kicking for the team. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1906 and as the captain of the 1908 Harvard football team. In addition to playing four years on the football team, Burr also competed for two years on Harvard's track team, one year on the baseball team and one year on the tennis team. He was also the first marshal of his class and president of his freshman clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Horatio Biglow
Lucius Horatio "Ray" Biglow III (''often spelled Bigelow''; February 28, 1885 – July 9, 1961) was an American football player and coach. He played right guard for Yale University from 1905 to 1907. He was selected as an All-American in both 1906 and 1907 and served as Yale Bulldogs football coach in 1908. Biography Biglow was born on February 28, 1885 in Brooklyn, New York to Lucius Horatio Biglow II and Susan Ann (née Moser) Biglow. He was raised in Morristown, New Jersey and attended the Lawrenceville School. He later enrolled at Yale University, where he graduated in 1908 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He married Marian Chandler Yeaw; and they had one son, Lucius Horatio, Jr. College athletics At Yale, he was the right guard on the school's football team for three years. He also played point on the ice hockey team for two years, helping the Elis win the Intercollegiate Championship in 1908. Biglow was selected as an All-American in 1906 and unanimously el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Curtis
John Spencer "Big Joe" Curtis (November 14, 1882 – January 29, 1972) was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904 to 1906 and as an All-American in 1904 and 1905. In his four seasons as the starting left tackle for the Michigan Wolverines, the team compiled a record of 37–2–1, won two national championships and outscored opponents by a combined total of 1,699 to 60. Curtis later served as the head football coach at Tulane University from 1907 to 1908 and at the Colorado School of Mines in 1909. Football player A native of Pueblo, Colorado, Curtis played three years of high school football in Colorado. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1903 to play football for Fielding H. Yost's famous "Point-a-Minute" football teams. He played tackle for the Michigan Wolverines from 1903 to 1906. 1903 season As a freshman in 1903, Curtis was selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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