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Position | Quarterback |
Class | 1897 |
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Myles P. O'Connor was an American college football player. He was a quarterback for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team from 1895 to 1896. [1] [2] One of the highest honors that a student could achieve was the "Bachelor of Ugliness;" O'Connor won this award in 1897. [3] [4]
Birton Neill Wilson was an American professor, engineer, and college football coach. He served as a professor of mechanical engineering and the head football coach at Arkansas Industrial University.
Harry Orman "Jake" Robinson was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Missouri (1893–1894), the University of Texas at Austin (1896), and the University of Maine (1897), compiling a career coaching record of 13–10–1. The Bangor, Maine, native was born on February 26, 1872, and played football as a lineman at Tufts University.
George Henry "Jack" Abbott was the head coach of the University of Maine's football team in 1896 and compiled a 1–3–2 record. Also in 1896, Abbott was the head coach of the Maine Black Bears baseball team, which a 5–4 record that season.
Robert Acton was Irish-American college football player and coach and physician. He attended Harvard Medical School and he played football as a left guard for the Crimson from 1893 to 1895 and was also a member of the rowing team. Acton was the fifth head football coach at Vanderbilt University, serving for three seasons, from 1896 to 1898, and compiling a record of 10–7–3. He died on November 22, 1900, at Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan after an overdose of morphine.
Frank Barrows Freyer was a United States Navy captain who served as the 14th Naval Governor of Guam. Freyer graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1902, having played several collegiate sports there. The Navy assigned him to many different ships, including having him participate in the Great White Fleet and its visit to Japan. Soon after, he was transferred to the Naval Base Guam, where he served as assistant to the Commandant before from November 5, 1910, to January 21, 1911, he became acting governor of the island. As governor, he suspended the licenses of all midwives on the island because of an alarming rate of infection, requiring them all to be re-certified. After George Salisbury relieved him of the position, Freyer became his aide.
The 1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his first season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played six home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record of 9–0.
Frank "Stitch" Kyle was an American football player and coach.
Noah Winston Caton was an American football player and track star for the Auburn Tigers of Auburn University. Caton was thrice selected All-Southern. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. His older brother Eugene was also a prominent Auburn football player.
Daniel Bigelow Blake, Jr. was an American football player and coach.
John Emmett Edgerton was an industrialist who gained prominence as the president of the National Association of Manufacturers from 1921 to 1931. Edgerton was also an All-Southern college football fullback for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University.
Willard Hugo Steele was a college football player and physician. He specialized in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. His wife was Kate Adelle Hinds.
John Beverly Pollard was an American college football player and coach and surgeon in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy.
Walter Knaus Chorn was an American college football player and coach, lawyer, and one time insurance superintendent of Missouri.
William Ewing Beard was a college football player, soldier, journalist, war correspondent, naval historian, and long-time officer of the Tennessee Historical Commission and member of the Tennessee Historical Society. He wrote several books on Nashville and dubbed Vanderbilt University the Commodores.
Frank Blake was a college football coach at Gordon Institute and Mercer. He was a graduate of Vanderbilt University, the brother of Bob Blake and Dan Blake.
The Bachelor of Ugliness was a title conferred onto Vanderbilt University's most popular male undergraduate. One of the highest honors that a student could achieve, it was given to the male undergraduate student believed to be most representative of ideal young manhood and the class's most popular member, devised by William H. Dodd, a professor, in 1885.
George Albert Jennings was an American college football coach and physician. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Bucknell University, from 1897 to 1898, compiling a record of 7–7–4.