Walter Herbert "Eckie" Eckersall (June 17, 1883 – March 24, 1930) was an American college football player, official, and sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune...
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co-champions for the 1915 college football season. Rose Bowl referee Walter Eckersall, who also officiated a Cornell game that season, was quoted as saying...
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attorney, resided at 1537 East 60th Street for most of his adult life Walter Eckersall (1886–1930), football official and sportswriter Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)...
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Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993), composer, the "father of Gospel music" Walter Eckersall (1886–1930), all-American quarterback and sportswriter Mircea Eliade...
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Princeton G 1904 Willie Heston Michigan HB 1905 Tom Shevlin Yale E 1906 Walter Eckersall Chicago QB 1907 Germany Schulz Michigan C 1908 Doc Fenton LSU QB 1909...
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Conference football team, Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune selected Vick and guard Robert J. Dunne as first-team players. Eckersall also named Franklin...
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and Rutgers were not members of the Big Ten when Chicago was a member. Walter S. Kennedy, quarterback for Stagg's 1898–1899 teams Wally Marks, fullback...
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"Little Eddie Tolan: Track Immortal Dies". Lowell Sun. February 1, 1967. Walter Eckersall (June 23, 1918). "Steve Farrell Once Noted as Keen Sprinter: Track...
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with being the innovator of the forward pass. Stagg noted that he had Walter Eckersall working on pass plays and saw Pomeroy Sinnock of Illinois throw many...
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Destination Freedom in 1948 Amelia Earhart (1915) – iconic aviator Walter Eckersall (1883) – college football Hall of Fame player Jane Fauntz – Olympic...
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surrounded referee Walter Eckersall to protest the decision granting Michigan's touchdown. One of the angry fans reportedly struck Eckersall, who was then...
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was the team captain. Two Chicago players, Catlin and quarterback Walter Eckersall, were consensus first-team selections on the 1905 All-American football...
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received post-season honors. Walter Camp selected Bomar for his All-America team, a rarity for a player in the South. Walter Eckersall and Frank G. Menke also...
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Football All-America Team with first-team honors from Frank G. Menke, Walter Eckersall, and Parke H. Davis. He graduated from Nebraska in 1916. After graduating...
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Milner Library. Walter Eckersall (September 6, 1924). "Traffic Cop Wins First Police Event". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 9. Walter Eckersall (September 5,...
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honored on the 1914 All-Western Conference football team selected by Walter Eckersall: quarterback Potsy Clark (first teaam); halfbacks Harold Pogue (first...
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SL: 369 1901 (no champion) 1902 Chicago (IL) Hyde Park 5–0 Walter Eckersall NCG, SL, TH: 369 Eckersall served as player-coach 1903 Chicago (IL) North Division...
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practice. The teammate, Walter Eckersall, also said Ransom got good grades and used the time between calls as a bell boy to study. Eckersall went on to Quarterback...
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foremost professional runners in the 1880s and 1890s. Sports writer Walter Eckersall called Farrell "the greatest professional footracer this country has...
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points, and had a 55-yard touchdown run. In the Chicago Daily Tribune, Walter Eckersall, who served as the referee in the game, wrote that Friedman was "one...
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Carlisle B – Elmer Oliphant, Purdue B – Willie Heston, Michigan B – Walter Eckersall, Chicago See footnote Currently the FWAA sponsors seven awards and...
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(1896–1897) A. F. Holste George H. Garrey Walter S. Kennedy (1898–1899) James M. Sheldon Walter Eckersall (1905–1906) Walter Steffen (1907–1908) Ira Davenport...
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Chicago apartment, then dubbed a "virtual bomb factory". [dead link] Walter, Eckersall (October 7, 1925). "Thistlethwaite Rose from Obscurity to Coach at...
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distance, he was regularly able to beat Hahn in impromptu 40-yard races. Walter Eckersall, who played against Heston and later became a football writer for the...
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(including by Walter Camp in 1908), despite their being at the time a bias against players from western schools. Prominent sportswriter Walter Eckersall, in choosing...
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to four for the Wildcats in a rivalry which dates back to 1892.") Walter Eckersall (November 8, 1925). "Northwestern Upsets Michigan, 3–2: Purple Brains...
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Michigan none. The game was a punting duel between Chicago's All-American Walter Eckersall and Michigan's John Garrels and was scoreless until early in the third...
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started, the Northwestern crowd greeted the Wolverines warmly, and Walter Eckersall in the Chicago Tribune wrote: "That Michigan is welcomed in its return...
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made retroactively. Later, Pollard was the first Black player named to the Walter Camp All-America team and became the first Black NFL head coach. The official...
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Athletic Hall of Honor Yost's all-time All-America backfield was Heston, Walter Eckersall, Jim Thorpe, and Elmer Oliphant. Yost was best man at McGugin's wedding...
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