Norman Winslow Cabot (July 1, 1876 – April 12, 1928) 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. Cabot was born in 1876 in

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. He was the son of architect

Edward Clarke Cabot Edward Clarke Cabot (August 17, 1818 – January 5, 1901) was an American architect and artist. Life and career Edward Clarke Cabot was born April 17, 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Cabot Jr. and Eliza (Perkins) Cabot. He was the ...

, a descendant of explorer

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. He attended Hale School in

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. He attended

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where he played for the

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team from 1894 to 1897. He was 5', 11-1/2" and 168 pounds and was called "a remarkably strong tackler and a good ground-gainer." As a sophomore, he was selected as a first-team

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on the 1895 All-America college football team. He was also elected captain of the 1897 Harvard football team. After leaving Harvard, Cabot and his brother formed the real estate firm of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes in Boston. During

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, he served as an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve Force. He was stationed at the Moutchic air station in France. He later became commanding officer at the Tudy Island Naval Air Station before being reassigned to naval headquarters in Paris and later to the office of naval intelligence in London. He died in 1928 at his home in Brookline.

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