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1910 All-Western College Football Team
The 1910 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1910 college football season. All-Western selections Ends * Stanfield Wells, Michigan (ECP, WE-1) * Stanley Borleske, Michigan (WE-1) * Otto E. Seiler, Illinois (ECP) * Arthur Berndt, Indiana (WE-2) * James Dean, Wisconsin (WE-2) Tackles * William P. Edmunds, Michigan (WE-1) * James Walker, Minnesota (ECP, WE-1) * Homer W. Dutter, Indiana (ECP, WE-2) * Sylvester V. Shonka, Nebraska (WE-2) Guards * Albert Benbrook, Michigan (ECP, WE-1) (CFHOF) * Glenn D. Butzer, Illinois (ECP, WE-1) * Paul E. Belting, Illinois (WE-2) * Ernest W. Baldwin, Michigan Agricultural (WE-2) Centers * John F. Twist, Illinois (ECP, WE-1) * Sydney M. Collins, Nebraska (WE-2) Quarterbacks * John McGovern, Minnesota (ECP, WE-1) (CFHOF) * Shorty McMillan, Michigan (WE-2) Halfbacks * Joe Magidsohn, Michigan (ECP, WE-1) * Otto E. Seiler, Illinois (WE-1) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 College Football Season
The 1910 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Harvard and Pittsburgh as having been retrospectively selected national champions, by four "major selectors" in about 1927, 1947, 1970 and 1980. Only Harvard claims a national championship for the 1910 season. Rules Rule changes were made prior to the 1910 season to permit more use of the forward pass, with complicated limitations: *The only eligible receivers were the two ends, who could catch a pass no more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, and could not be interfered with until the ball was caught. *A legal pass could not be thrown unless the quarterback was at least 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and the rest of the players, except the two ends, were at least 1 yard behind the scrimmage line. *On kickoffs and punts, the kicking team's players could not be touched until they had advanced 20 yards *Flying tackles were outlawed, and "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McGovern (American Football)
John McGovern (September 15, 1887 – December 13, 1963) was an American college football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966. Biography McGovern was born in Arlington, Minnesota and attended high school in Arlington. McGovern played college football for the University of Minnesota, and was the junior captain and quarterback at the University of Minnesota. He led his team to the Big Nine conference (later the Big Ten Conference). McGovern was named an All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation and Look Magazine in 1909. McGovern played for the Minnesota Golden Golphers football team under coach Henry L. Williams. While at Minnesota, McGovern was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and Phi Delta Phi, a law society. accessed 12 Aug 2020. After college gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 College Football All-America Team
The 1910 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1910 college football season. The only selector for the 1910 season who has been recognized as "official" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is Walter Camp. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910. The magazine ''Leslie's Weekly'' attempted to develop a consensus All-American by polling 16 football experts and aggregating their votes. Others who selected All-Americans in 1911 include ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Sun'', and sports writer Wilton S. Farnsworth of the ''New York Evening Journal''. The 1910 Harvard Crimson football team compiled a record of 9–0–1 and outscored opponents 161 to 5. Harvard allowed only one team to score a point and played Yale to a 0–0 tie. A total of eight Harvard players were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Football Hall Of Fame
The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were voted first team All-American by the media. In August 2014, the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame opened in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The facility is a attraction located in the heart of Atlanta's sports, entertainment and tourism district, and is adjacent to the Georgia World Congress Center and Centennial Olympic Park. History Early plans 1949 - Rutgers was selected as the site for football’s Hall of Fame, via a vote by thousands of sportswriters, coaches, and athletic leaders. Rutgers was chosen for the location because Rutgers and Princeton played the first game of intercollegiate football in New Brunswick on November 6, 1869. Secondary plans in 1967 called for the Hall of Fame to be located at Rutgers University in New Bru ... [...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] |
Collier's Weekly
''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Collier's: The National Weekly'' and eventually to simply ''Collier's''. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated the week ending January 4, 1957, although a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012. As a result of Peter Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, ''Collier's'' established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. After lawsuits by several companies against ''Collier's'' ended in failure, other magazines joined in what Theodore Roosevelt described as "muckraking journalism." Sponsored by Nathan S. Collier (a descendant of Peter Collier), the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability was created in 2019. The annual US$25,000 prize is one of the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Exelby
Leon C. "Ex" Exelby (1888 – September 29, 1962) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He played college football at Michigan Agricultural College—now known as Michigan State University—from 1907 to 1910. He was captain of the 1910 Michigan Agricultural team. Playing as a fullback, he was selected by Walter Eckersall to the 1910 All-Western college football team. Exelby served as the head football coach at the University of Wyoming for one season in 1912, compiling a record of 2–7. He was also Wyoming's head basketball coach that academic year, 1912–13, tallying a mark of 2–5. Exelby died on September 29, 1962, in Owosso, Michigan Owosso is the largest city in Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,194 at the 2010 census. The city is mostly surrounded by Owosso Township on its west, but the two are administered autonomously. The city wa .... Head coaching record Football References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Andrew Gill
Thomas Andrew Gill (January 23, 1887 – March 8, 1947) was an American football, and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. Coaching career Gill was the head football coach at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1912 and at Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1913. He also coached Albion's baseball team in the spring of 1914. In May 1914, Gill was hired to coach football, basketball, at baseball at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Gill served as the head football coach at Kentucky from 1918 to 1919, compiled a 5–5–1 record His 1918 team won two games, at Indiana, 24–7, and at , 21–3. They lost at Vanderbilt, 33–0. A subsequent game against Centre and the remainder of the season were canceled due to the 1918 flu pandemic. Gill's 1919 team was 3–4–1, with wins against Georgetown, 1919 Sewanee Tigers football team and Tennessee and losses to Indiana, Ohio State, Cincinnati and Centre, while tying Vanderbilt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Magidsohn
Joseph Magidsohn (December 20, 1888 – February 14, 1969) was an American football player and official. He played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1909 and 1910 and was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1909 and a first-team All-American in 1910. He was the first Jewish athlete to win a varsity "M" at the University of Michigan and is the first athlete known to have refused to compete on the Jewish High Holy Days. Biography Early years In 1888, Magidsohn was born in Tukums, a town that was then part of the Russian Empire, but which is now part of Latvia, and was Jewish. He was the son of Herman Magidsohn, a merchant born in Russia in July 1863, and Bessie Magidsohn, born in August 1864 in Russia. His father immigrated to the United States in 1889, and his mother followed in 1892 with two sons, Joe and Sam. At the time of the 1900 U.S. Census, the family had grown to four children and was living in Oliver Township in The Thumb re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shorty McMillan
Neil "Shorty" McMillan (September 10, 1890 – October 1964) was an American football quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1910–1911. Playing career A native of Detroit, Michigan, McMillan enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1909 and led the freshman football team to an undefeated season, leading to high expectations for the 1910 team under his leadership. McMillan started all six games for Michigan in the 1910 season in which the Wolverines went undefeated but also played in three tie games for a final record of 3–0–3. In his first year of college football, McMillan developed a reputation as an "exceptional quarter back", and Michigan's head coach Fielding H. Yost said "he never had a man handle the work in that position as well as did McMillan in his first year." His accomplishments were considered all the more impressive when it was discovered that he had played the hardest home games of the 1910 season with a broken shoulder. McMillan was credited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Benbrook
Albert "Benny" Benbrook (August 24, 1887 – August 16, 1943) was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1908 to 1910. He was chosen by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American in 1909 and 1910 and was Michigan's team captain in 1910. He is considered one of the best college football linemen in the early years of the sport. He served in the military and later had a career in the office furniture and seating businesses. He was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Early years Benbrook was a born in 1887 at either Benbrook, or Fort Worth, Texas. His father, Monroe Benbrook (1860-1927), was an Illinois native, and his mother, Lilly (Draper) Benbrook (1864-1934), was an immigrant from Canada. The family moved to Chicago in 1898. He was a "weight man" and football player at Chicago's prestigious Morgan Park Academy before enrolling at Michigan. All-American football player at Michigan Benbrook enrolled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 All-Western College Football Team
The 1908 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1908 college football season. All-Western selections Ends * James Dean, Wisconsin (ALF, CDN, WE) * Walter Henry Rademacher, Minnesota (CDN, CRH) * Harlan Page, Chicago (ALF, WE) * Anderson, Wisconsin (CRH) Tackles * James Walker, Minnesota (ALF, CDN, CRH, WE) * Oscar Osthoff, Wisconsin (ALF, CDN) * Ralph Dimmick, Notre Dame (WE) Guards * Albert Benbrook, Michigan (CDN, CRH, WE) (CFHOF) * Glenn D. Butzer, Illinois (ALF, CDN, CRH) * Sam Dolan, Notre Dame (WE) * William Mackmiller, Wisconsin (ALF) Centers * Henry E. Farnum, Minnesota (CDN, CRH) * Andrew W. Smith, Michigan (WE) * Benjamin Harrison Badenoch, Chicago (ALF) Quarterbacks * John McGovern, Minnesota (ALF, CRH, WE) (CFHOF) * Harlan Page, Chicago (CDN) Halfbacks * Dave Allerdice, Michigan (CDN, WE) * Joe Magidsohn, Michigan (CRH, WE) * William Lucas Crawley, Chicago (AL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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