Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-04
GOOD ATHLETICS MAKE
GOOD PUBLIC SERVANTS


mount repeated setbacks on the part Of
it's players, is particularly fitting for
successful political career later in
life would appear to be indicated by
the number of famous players who
have achieved positions Of prominence
in both state and nation. There is sell
dom an election of Importance in which
some football player is not elevated to
public life by the voters of one or an
other political party Those former
knights of the grtdiron are selected OF
appointed to all manner of political po
sitions and almost without exception
discharge the duties of their offices in
an extremely satisfactory manner.
The recent election of Blair Lee as
United States senator from Maryland
recalls to mind the long list of former
players who have won public recogni-
ton of similar nature. Lee, who was
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 players.
Robert Bacon, late ambassador 20
France, was an old Harvard captain
and halfback; James S. Harlan, of the
United States Interstate Commerce
commission, is an old Princeton for
ward. Lee McClung, late treasurer Of
the United States, a former captain and
halfback at Yale; William H. Lewis,
recently assistant attorney general Of
the United States, an old Harvard cen
ter; S. H. Tompson, the present first
assistant attorney general of the United
States, and William w. Roper, the
present surveyor of the port of Phila-
delphia, both Princeton ends; eX-Con-
gresham Lucius N. Littauer, lines
man for the Crimson; Clifford N. Pin
chOt, late chief forester, once varsity
man at Yale and his successor, the
present incumbent at Washington,
Chief Forester Harmon S. Graves, a
former back for the Blue. The late
Governor William E. Russell, of Mas
sachusetts, was halfback at Harvard
Governor George R. Carter, Of Hawaii
was a guard at Yale; Everett J. Lake,
the great Harvard halfback, lieutenant
governor of Connecticut, and the famous
W. H. Corbin, affectionately known IS
Pa" the present commissioner of
taxes for Connecticut once center for
Yale. John C. Bull, the great Pennsyl-
vania halfback, is attorney general OF
the state of Pennsylvania
In the Connecticut senate recently
sat Frank S. Butterworth Yale's fam
Gus fullback of twenty years ago, Down
in Delaware is Justice Marvel, of the
supreme court and once secretary of
state, an old Princeton captain and
forward, and in the Office of attorney
general of Maryland sits celebrated
Edgar Allan Poe of Princeton. In the
Office of the chief justice of New Jersey
is William S. Gunmore, another old
Princeton captain; in Pennsylvania's
twentieth judicial district in another
Princeton player, Judge j. M. Woods
George W Woodruff, an ev-judge of the
United States circuit court, was once a
celebrated guard at Yale, and still
more famous as a coach at Pennsyl-
vania, inventor of the quarterback
kick, guards back and host of other
football maneuvers. A recent reform
mayor of Harrisburg was Vance Me-
Cormick, the old Yale quarterback. A
late assistant police commissioner in
New York was Bert Hanson, the old
Yale guard, and there is big Bill" Ed
wards, an old Princeton captain, late
New York street cleaning commission
er, now in charge of a similar depart
ment at Newark n. ]. Charles D.
DAILY, the Army's successful coach last