Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1914 — FOOTBALL PLAYERS SPARKLE IN POLITICS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOOTBALL PLAYERS SPARKLE IN POLITICS

That college football is a fitting training for a political career seems to be indicated by the number of college players who have succeeded in getting high positions in the state and nation. The election of Blair Lee as United States senator from Maryland recalls to mind the long list of former players who have won public recognition of similar nature. Lee, who was a famous “forward” at Princeton ,in the late seventies, playing the position of “next-to-end,” now known as tackle, followed the footsteps of many other Princeton, Harvard and Yale football players. * Robert Bacon, late ambassador to France, was an old Harvard captain and halfback; James S. Harlan of the United States interstate commerce commission is an old Princeton forward; Lee McClung, late treasurer of the United States, a former captain and halfback at Yale; William H. Lekis, recently assistant attorney general of the United States, an old Harvard center; H, S. Thompson, first assistant attorney-general of the United States, and William W. Roper,

surveyor of the port of Philadelphia, both Princeton ends; ex-Con-gressman Lucius N. Littauer, a linesman for the Crimson; Gifford N. Pinchot, late chief forester, once a ’varsity man of Yale, and his successor, the present incumbent at Washington Chief Forester Harmon S. Graves, a former back for the Blue. The late Gov. William E. Russell of Massachusetts was a halfback at Harvard; Gov. George R. Carter of Hawaii, once a guard at Yale; Everett J. Lake, the great Harvard halfback, lieutenant governor of Connecticut, and the famous W. H.. Corbin, affectionately known as “Pa,” the present commissioner of taxes for Connecticut, once a center for Yalp. John C. Bull, the great Pennsylvania halfback, is attor-ney-general of the state of Pennsylvania. A recent mayor of Harrisburg was Vance McCormick, the old Yale quarterback. A late assistant police commissioner in New York was Bert Hanson, the old Yale guard, and there is “Big Bill” Edwards, an old Princeton player, late New York street cleaning commissioner.

Burnett of Yale Practicing at Tackling.