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6 unusual facts about Caspar Whitney


1898 Michigan Wolverines football team

Center William Cunningham was selected as a first-team All-American by Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly – the first Michigan football player to receive first-team All-American honors.

1901 Wisconsin Badgers football team

Caspar Whitney of Outing magazine named two Wisconsin players, tackle Art Curtis and halfback Al "Norsky" Larson, as second-team players on his 1901 College Football All-America Team.

1906 Michigan Wolverines football team

No Michigan players received first-team All-American honors from Walter Camp or Caspar Whitney.

Frederic B. Pratt

In 1910, he succeeded Caspar Whitney as president of the American Olympic Committee, now the United States Olympic Committee, but only served for five weeks, prior to Col Robert Means Thompson.

William Caley

He was selected as a first-team All-Western player by both Caspar Whitney and the Chicago Daily Tribune.

At the end of the 1898 season Caspar Whitney (the originator of the practice of naming All-American teams) and the Chicago Daily Tribune both selected Caley as a first-team member of their All-Western teams.



see also

Horace Kephart

In addition, he wrote The Hunting Rifle section of Guns, Ammunition and Tackle (New York: Macmillan, 1904), a volume of Caspar Whitney's prestigious American Sportsman's Library.