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1925 All-Eastern Football Team
The 1925 All-Eastern football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors as the best players at each position among the Eastern colleges and universities during the 1925 college football season. The undefeated 1925 Dartmouth Indians football team had four players who received first-team All-Eastern honors from at least one selector: halfback Andy Oberlander; end George Tully; tackle Nathan Parker; and guard Carl Diehl. Five players received first-team All-Eastern honors and were also consensus first-team All-Americans: Oberander, Tully, and Diehl of Dartmouth; center Ed McMillan of Princeton; and tackle Ralph Chase of Pittsburgh. Six of the All-Eastern honorees were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Oberlander; halfback Eddie Tryon of Colgate; fullback Andy Gustafson of Pittsburgh; end Vic Hanson of Syracuse; tackle Bud Sprague of Army; and guard Herbert Sturhahn of Yale. All-Eastern selections Quarterbacks * Jim Foley, Syracu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 College Football Season
The 1925 college football season ended with no clear national champion. At the close of the season, noted sports writer Billy Evans described the championship contest as "a dead heat" among Dartmouth, Tulane, Michigan, Washington, and Alabama. Dartmouth, led by halfback Andy Oberlander, compiled an 8–0 record and outscored its opponents by a total of 340 to 29. Having defeated Harvard, Cornell, and Chicago, Dartmouth was retroactively declared the national champion by the Dickinson System and Parke H. Davis. Alabama compiled a 10–0 record and has been recognized as national champion by the Billingsley Report, Boand System, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, and others. In an intersectional game between undefeated teams, Alabama defeated Pacific Coast Conference champion Washington by a 20–19 score in the 1926 Rose Bowl; that game has been called "the game that changed the South." Michigan shut out seven of eight opponents, outscored al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Sprague
Mortimer "Bud" Sprague (September 8, 1904 – April 25, 1973) was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. He was one of the eight children born to Minna and George Sprague, of the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. Bud's father George served on the Dallas City Council and as the Mayor of Dallas from 1937 to 1939. Bud originally played on University of Texas' varsity football team, and later transferred to the United States Military Academy to play out his eligibility for the Army Black Knights. Eventually Bud settled in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ... and made his fortune in maritime insurance. He named his son, Kurth Sprague, after his mentor. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Frank Gates
Caleb Frank Gates (December 24, 1903 – December 21, 1955) was an American historian who served as Chancellor of the University of Denver. Early life and education Gates was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul), and received his early education at Robert College in Istanbul, where his father (Caleb Frank Gates, 1857–1946) served as president. Gates came to the United States in 1919 and attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania for three years. In 1926, he graduated with honors from Princeton University and continued his studies under a Rhodes scholarship at Balliol College in Oxford. In 1928, while attending college, Gates married Elizabeth Farnum in England. They raised four children: Caleb Jr., Betsy Ann, Mary Ellen, and Gwynne. The couple returned to Turkey after Gates graduated from Balliol College with both B. A. and M. A. degrees. He taught history and served as headmaster of the preparatory school at Robert College from 1932 to 1933. Gates returned to Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Joss
John Hubbard Joss (March 18, 1902 – March 22, 1955) was an American football player, lawyer, and government official. Early years Joss was born in Indianapolis in 1902. He attended the Taft School in Connecticut before enrolling at Yale College. Athletic career He played college football at the tackle position for the Yale Bulldogs football team. He was described as "the backbone of the rush line on defense", "unusually agile for his size", and "one of the outstanding tackles." He was selected in February 1925 as the captain of the 1925 Yale Bulldogs football team. He was also selected by Lawrence Perry as a first-team player on the 1924 All-American college football team, and by ''Liberty'' magazine and the '' New York Sun'' as a first-team player on the 1925 All-American college football team. Later years He moved to Mexico City in the early 1930s and competed for the amateur golf championship of Mexico in 1931. He also served as the coach of the University of Mex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Wagner
Raymond John Wagner (February 25, 1902 – December 3, 1990) was an American football player. Parker was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Fosdick-Masten Park High School before enrolling at Columbia University. He played college football at the end position for the Columbia Lions football team and was selected by the All-America Board as a third-team player on the 1925 College Football All-America Team. He also played three years as an end in the National Football League for the Orange Tornadoes (one game, 1929), Newark Tornadoes (five games, 1930), and Buffalo Indians (six games, 1931). Wagner died in 1990 at age 88 in St. Petersburg, Florida St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. It is the .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Ray 1902 births 1990 deaths American f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Thayer
George Chapman Thayer, Jr.Full name George Chapman Thayer reported in "The Record" (U. Penn. yearbook) for 1924, p. 358. (March 5, 1905 – April 21, 1952) was an American football player. He grew up in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a member of Delta Psi. He also played college football at the end position for the Penn Quakers football team in 1924 and 1925. In December 1925, he was voted by his teammates as the captain of the 1926 Penn football team. At the end of the 1926 season, he was selected by Grantland Rice as a first-team end on his 1925 College Football All-America Team for ''Collier's Weekly''. He was also named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press. He declined offers to play professional football, and in 1927, he traveled to Honduras for a two-year to learn the business of growing and exporting fruit. He died in 1952 at age 47, just 6 months after being named a partner at Merrill Lynch. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles F
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Kreuz
Albert F. Kreuz (August 21, 1898 – August 1975) was an American football fullback. He played on the Philadelphia Quakers' 1926 American Football League (AFL) team, which won the league's only championship. Kreuz played college football at the University of Pennsylvania as a back and placekicker. His first season at Pennsylvania was 1924, his sophomore year, and he played through 1925 before being ruled ineligible for the 1926 season due to having previously played for Kalamazoo College. Kreuz joined the Quakers in 1926. He played in all 10 games during the Quakers' 8–2 season, in which they won the AFL championship. The ''Chicago Tribune's'' Wilfrid Smith named Kreuz a second-team All-Pro fullback in a list that included players from the National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Plansky
Anthony Joseph Plansky (June 20, 1900 – February 10, 1979) was an American football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and Boston Braves. Biography A native of South Boston, Massachusetts, Plansky attended Georgetown University, where he was a star fullback and decathlete. He was the AAU national decathlon champion in 1924, and won the decathlon event at the prestigious Penn Relays in 1925 and 1926. On the gridiron, he was a member of the 1925 College Football All-America Team and the 1925 All-Eastern football team. Plansky narrowly missed competing in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In April of 1928, he again won the decathlon event at the Penn Relays, which was widely thought to be the Olympic qualifying event, but was later determined not to be. Plansky played professional football for the NFL's Giants in 1928 and 1929. In his second season, he scored nine touchdowns, two field goal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Amos
William Enlow Amos (July 6, 1898 – April 26, 1987) was an American college football player and coach. He is considered to be one of the best college football players in Washington & Jefferson College history. Amos was born in Graysville, Pennsylvania. He attended The Kiski School and was a veteran of World War I. As a fullback for Washington & Jefferson for was named to the 1926 College Football All-America Team and the 1927 College Football All-America Team. After graduation, he turned down an offer from Pete Henry to play for the New York Giants and a minor league baseball contract. He returned to coach the Washington & Jefferson College football team from 1929 to 1931, amassing a record of 17–8–3. During the 1929 football season, Amos shared the head coach title with Ray Ride, who resigned after the season citing it being impossible to operate under dual authority. From 1937 through 1946, he was a multi-sport coach at Washington High School. He was a driving fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Slagle
Jacob Winebrenner SlagleFull name verified by (i) The Princeton Bric-a-Brac 1925, page 98, and (ii) The Princeton Bric-a-Brac 1926, page 85. (August 31, 1903 – January 10, 1981), sometimes known as Jake Slagle, was an American football player. Athletic career Slagle grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Gilman School before enrolling at Princeton University. He played college football at the fullback, halfback and quarterback positions for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1924 to 1926 and was known as a triple-threat man who handled passing, kicking and rushing responsibilities for the team, and excelled on defense as well. Slagle was selected by the United Press as a first-team fullback on the 1925 College Football All-America Team. He also received second-team All-American honors in 1924 from Walter Camp (at quarterback) and in 1925 from the Associated Press (at fullback), All-America Board (at quarterback), '' Collier's Weekly'' (at halfback), and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Kirkleski
Frank William Kirkleski (May 19, 1904 – May 6, 1980) was a professional American football player from Nutley, New Jersey. He played during the early years of the National Football League (NFL) for the Pottsville Maroons, Orange Tornadoes, Newark Tornadoes and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Kirkleski played college football for Lafayette College, in which he graduated from in 1927. College While at Lafayette, Kirkleski was known as a hard-hitting back. He played all four of his college years as a varsity halfback. During his freshman season, he shocked Lafayette's archrival, Lehigh University, with a touchdown run that gave the Leopards a 13–3 last-minute victory in 1923. Lehigh only scored three points in Kirkleski's four years at Lafayette. In his sophomore year, he helped guide Lafayette to a 7–2 record. He was named the team's captain during his senior year. It was then that he helped the Leopards capture their third national championship with a 9–0 record. He received second an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |