The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-31
FOOTBALL TRAINS
FOR POLITICS
IS Conclusion Drawn from Successful
Experiences of Football Players in
Many Parts of United States.

New York, Jan. 3l.-That college foot
ball with its rigorous training, necessity
for self control and ability to surmount
repeated setbacks on the part of its
players, is particularly fitting for a sue
cessful political career later in life would
appear to be indicated by the number of
famous players who have achieved posi-
tons of prominence in both state and
nation. There is seldom an election of
Importance in which some football play
or is not elevated to public life by the
voters of one or another political party.
Those former knights of the gridiron are
selected or appointed to all manner of
political positions and almost without
exception discharge the duties of their
Offices in an extremely satisfactory man
rer.
The recent election OF Blair Lee az
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 fa-
nous 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 players.
Robert Bacon, late ambassador TO
France, was an old Harvard captain and
half back; James S. Harlan of the Unit.
ed States interstate commerce commits
sion is an old Princeton forward. Leo
McChIng, late treasurer of the United
States, former captain and half back
at Yale; William H. Lewis, recently as
sistant attorney general of the United
States, an old Harvard center; s. H.
Thompson, the present first assistant at
torney general of the United States, and
William w. Ropor, the present surveyor
of the port of Philadelphia, both Prince
ton ends; ex-Congressman Lucius N. Lit
tauer, lineman for the Crimson; Gift
ford n Pinchot, late Chief Forester,
once varsity man at Yale, and his sue
cessor, the present incumbent at Wash
ington, Chief Forester Harmon S. Graves,
a former back for the Blue. The late
Governor William Z. Russell of Massa-
was a half back at Harvard;
Governor George r. Carter of Hawaii,
once a guard at Yale; Everett ]. Lake,
the great Corbin, aiiectionately known
as "Pa," the present commissioner of
taxes for Connecticut, once a center or
Yale. John G. Bull, the great Pennsyl-
vania half-back, is attorney-general of
the state of Pennsylvania.
In the Connecticut Senate recently sat
Frank S. Butterworth, Yale's famous
full of twenty years ago. Down
in Delaware is Justice Marvel of the
supreme court and once secretary Of
state, an old Princeton captain and for
ward, and in the office of the attorney
general of Maryland sits celebrated Ed
gar Allen Poe OF Princeton. In the Of
fee of the chief justice of New Jersey is
William 5. Gummore, another old
Princeton captain; in Pennsylvania
goth judicial district is another old
Princeton player, Judge j. NJ. Woods.
George w. Woodruff, an ex-iudge of the
United States circuit court, was once a
celebrated guard at Yale, and still more
famous as coach at Pennsylvania, in
ventor of the quarter-b back kick, guards
back and host of other football man
oeuvres. A recent reform mayor of Har-
risburg was Vance Mccormick, the old
Yale quarter back. A late assistant po-
lice commissioner in New York was Bert
Hanson. the old Yale guard, ANA there is
Big Bill" Edwards, an Old Princeton
captain, late New York street cleaning
now in charge of similar
department. at Newark, n. J. Charles
D. Dolly, the army's successful coach last
iall, has recently left the Office OF fire
of Boston to rejoin the
army and the list might be continued in.