The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917. The Act itself was drafted by then-Captain Hugh S. Johnson after the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany. The Act was canceled with the end of the war on November 11, 1918. The Act was upheld as constitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 1918.
Edward Robert Sears was an American animator during The Golden Age of American animation. Sears worked for the Fleischer Studios in the late-1920s and early-1930s, and was hired away from Max Fleischer to work at the Walt Disney studio in 1931.
Herman G. Steiner was an American football, baseball, and track coach, athletic trainer, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach of the Duke Blue Devils football program during the 1922 college football season. Between 1921 and 1927, he was also the Assistant Director of Physical Education at Duke University and served stints as the school's head baseball coach, head track coach, trainer, and director of intramural athletics.
John William Knibbs Jr. was an American football player and coach.
Fred James Hoey was an American radio sports announcer of Major League Baseball. Hoey called games for the Boston Braves during 1925–1938 and Boston Red Sox during 1927–1938.
Charles Howgate Guy was an American football player. He played college football for Dartmouth College and Washington & Jefferson College and professional football in the National Football League for five teams between 1920 and 1924. He was selected as an All-NFL player in 1923.
Charles Wadleigh Eldridge was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature as a member of the Board of Aldermen and as the seventeenth Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts.
William Clarence Moulton was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts Senate, as well as a member of the Common Council, Board of Aldermen and Mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
George Edward Denman was an American teacher and football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the third head football coach at Michigan Agricultural College, now known as Michigan State University, from 1901 to 1902, compiling a record of 7–9–1. Bemies was also the second head basketball coach at Michigan Agricultural from 1901 to 1903, tallying a mark of 11–0, and the head coach of Michigan Agricultural's baseball team from 1902 to 1903, where his record was 9–15–1.
William Edward Carney was a Massachusetts politician and court officer who served on the Boston Common Council, and as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Curry Starr Hicks was an American football coach, athletic director, and professor of physical education.
Wilton Simpson "Bill" Farnsworth was an American sports writer, editor, and boxing promoter. He worked for William Randolph Hearst's newspapers from 1904 to 1937. He was the sports editor of Hearst's New York Evening Journal (evening) or New York American (morning) from 1914 to 1937. He also worked for shorter stints on Hearst's Boston American (1904–1907) and Atlanta Georgian (1912–1914). From 1937 to 1944, he was a boxing promoter in partnership with Mike Jacobs.
Perry Daniel Thompson served as the forty sixth Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.
George William Faulkner was an American politician who served as Mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Charles Francis McCarthy was an American newspaper reporter and politician who served in the Massachusetts Great and General Court and as the eighteenth Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Edward Thomas Simoneau was an American politician who served as the twentieth Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Winfield Temple was an American lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Melvin Bernard Breath was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives; and on the Board of Aldermen, and as the thirtieth Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Oliver Davis Mann was an American football player and coach. A native of Danville, Illinois, he attended Rutgers College, graduating in the Class of 1901. He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights from 1897 to 1900. The New York Times wrote that Mann "for three years was the Captain of the best team Rutgers College ever had on the gridiron." He was also Rutgers' head football coach in the 1903 and 1905 seasons. In two seasons as head coach, Mann compiled a record of 7–10–1. He later resided in Danville, Illinois. In a draft registration card completed at the time of World War I, Mann indicated that he was a self-employed lawyer in Danville. He died in July 1956 and was buried at the Spring Hill Mausoleum in Danville.
John William Aiken was an American furniture finisher and socialist activist. Aiken was the vice-presidential and presidential nominee of the Socialist Labor Party of America.