Boyd Vincent Cherry (March 6, 1893 – November 14, 1970) 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 with ...

and

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player. He played college football and basketball at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

. In 1914 he became the first

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player to receive All-American honors and the first to receive first-team all-conference honors. After graduating from Ohio State in 1915, he was employed for more than 25 years by the Kinnear Manufacturing Company in

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

.Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. He was born in

Newark, Ohio Newark ( ) is a city serving as the county seat of Licking County, Ohio, United States, east of Columbus, at the junction of the forks of the Licking River. The population was 49,934 at the 2020 census, which makes it the 15th largest city in ...

, in 1893, and he died in 1970 at age 77 in

Fort Myers, Florida Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in southwestern Florida and the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 92,245 in 20 ...

.Ancestry.com. Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

References

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