Frank Murrey 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 ...

player and track athlete. He played

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

for

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

from 1918 to 1921 and was selected as an All-American quarterback 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 ...

in 1918. In 1920, Murrey ran 77 yards for a touchdown in Princeton's 14-0 victory over Navy. ''The New York Times'' described the run as a "nerve-tingling moment" and a "dazzling serpentine gallop." In 2000, Murrey was named as one of the backs on Princeton's All-Century Team 1900-99. In 1921, he won the Elks Grand Prix, a 600-meter special invitation race featuring the nine top college stars.

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