Claim: John Messmer plays as a football guard for Wisconsin, a private research university in Madison, and was awarded Second-team All-American in 1908.
Evidence: The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin. 
It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state.