1899 All-Western college football team

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The 1899 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1899 college football season.

American football Team field sport

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and 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, which is the team controlling the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball, while the defense, which is the team without control of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and aims to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, and otherwise they turn over the football to the defense; if the offense succeeds in advancing ten yards or more, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins.

1899 college football season

The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.

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All-Western selections

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Neil Snow American football player and coach

Neil Worthington Snow was an American athlete. He competed in American football, baseball, and track and field at the University of Michigan from 1898 to 1902. He was selected as a first-team All-American football player in 1901 and as the most valuable player in the 1902 Rose Bowl, a game in which he scored five touchdowns. He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960.

James M. Sheldon American football player and coach, basketball coach, college athletics administrator

James Milton Sheldon Sr. was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Indiana University from 1905 to 1913, compiling a record of 35–26–3. Sheldon was also the head basketball coach at Indiana for one season, in 1906–07, tallying a mark of 9–5. In addition, he served as Indiana's athletic director from 1907 to 1910.

Tackles

Arthur Hale Curtis American football player and coach

Arthur Hale Curtis was an American football player, coach, and gynecologist. He served as the head coach at the University of Kansas in 1902 and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1903 to 1904, compiling a career college football record of 17–10–1. Curtis earned an MD degree from Rush Medical College in 1905. He interned at Cook County Hospital and became a member of the Northwestern University Medical School faculty in 1910. Curtis was born on May 20, 1881 in Portage, Wisconsin. He died of a heart attack in 1955.

Guards

Richard France American football player

Richard Roy France was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan in 1898 and 1899. The 1898 team won the Western Conference. He was named an All-American in 1899.

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Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Ralph C. Hamill was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1900. Hamill later worked as a neurologist and psychiatrist. He died on July 5, 1961, at his home in Winnetka, Illinois.

John McLean (athlete) athlete

John Frederick McLean was an All-American college football player, track and field athlete, and coach. He won a silver medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris with a time of 15.5 seconds. He was also selected as an All-American football player in 1899 while playing for the University of Michigan. He went on to coach the Knox College and University of Missouri football teams in the 1900s. He was dismissed from his coaching position at Missouri in January 1906 after being accused of paying money to a player. Knox College voted him into their athletic Hall of Fame in 2012.

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NW = The Northwestern [2]

CFHOF = College Football Hall of Fame

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References

  1. ↑ "R. C. Hamill, Neurologist, Is Dead At 84". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois. July 6, 1961. p. 83. Retrieved March 28, 2018– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  2. ↑ "All-Western, All-Eastern, All-American". The Northwestern. December 14, 1899. p. 11.
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