Art Poe Arthur " Art " Poe ( March 22 , 1879 – April 15 , 1951 ) was an American football player and businessman , and one of six celebrated Poe brothers - second cousins , twice removed of American author Edgar Allan Poe - to play football at Princeton in the late 19th and early 20th century . He was selected retroactively by the Helms Athletic Foundation as the national college football player of the year for 1899 , and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969 . College career . Poe attended Princeton University , and was named to Walter Camp ' s All - American football second team in 1898 and first team in 1899 . He was one of the Poe Brothers , six celebrated American football players - second cousins , twice removed of American author Edgar Allan Poe - to play football at Princeton in the late 19th and early 20th century . Arthur made the plays that led to victories over Yale in 1898 and 1899 . In 1898 he took the ball from a Yale runner ' s grasp and raced 100 yards for the game ' s only score . Remarkably , he almost repeated the feat in the game ' s second half when he ran 90 yards with a Yale fumble for an apparent touchdown before the ball was ruled down where it had been recovered . In 1899 , Poe volunteered to attempt a game - winning field goal with only 30 seconds to play . Poe , despite never having before kicked in a game , volunteered to kick because both of Princeton ' s kickers had left the game due to injury . His kick was good and brought about a 11 - 10 Princeton victory over Yale . In 1914 , a " Pittsburgh Press " article declared the last - minute winning field goal " Football ' s Greatest Moment . " Both his winning run in 1898 and kick against the Elis in 1899 were celebrated in comic , quasi - epic poems by fellow Princeton grad M ' Cready Sykes in a book entitled " Poe ' s Run and Other Poems . " Of Poe ' s long touchdown run to beat Yale 6 - 0 in 1898 , Sykes penned : " Hys eyes on ye dystante Goale ; He lookes behynde him not , but from ye Scripture learned in Youthe Rememberethe Mrs . Lot . " Ye Elis tears in fierce Pursuite ; But Poe eludes ycm alle ; He rushes ' twixt ye quyverrynge Postes , & sytteth on ye Balle . " Poe ' s stardom on the gridiron as a junior and senior at Princeton was the result of a remarkable comeback from a severe leg injury suffered during his freshman year , after which doctors doubted that he would ever play football again . At only 5 - 7 and 146 pounds , he was a standout on the defensive line , and in addition to his heroics in Yale games had an 80 - yard touchdown run to beat Navy and a 40 - yard run to help defeat Brown in his junior season . In addition to excelling at football , Arthur was the top wrestler during his time at Princeton and was voted the most popular man in his class . Dartmouth star Fred Crolius , who played with Poe on the Homestead Library & Athletic Club team after they had both left college , described Poe ' s grit as an undersized football star . " Arthur Poe was about as game a man as the football world ever saw " said Crolius . " He was handicapped in his playing by a knee which would easily slip out of place . We men who played with him on the Homestead team were often stopped after Arthur had made a magnificent tackle and had broken up heavy interference , with this quiet request : ' Pull my bum knee back into place . ' After this was done , he would jump up and no one would ever know that it had been out . This man , who perhaps was the smallest man playing at that time , was absolutely unprotected . His suit consisted of a pair of shoes , stockings , unpadded pants , jersey and one elastic knee bandage . " Professional career . In 1900 and 1901 , Poe played for the Homestead Library & Athletic Club as the team won the mythical professional football championship both years . In 1902 , he joined many of his former Homestead players in the first National Football League as a member of the Pittsburgh Stars . The Stars would go on to win the league title that year . Later life . After graduating from Princeton in 1900 , Poe married Anne Emerson King in 1904 . They moved to Cedar Rapids , Iowa , where he would become the assistant plant manager and then the plant manager for the Quaker Oats Company . As a civic leader in Cedar Rapids , he served as director of the Red Cross ; chairman of all Liberty Loan drives ; president of the Princeton alumni class of 1900 ; president of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce ; president of the Coe College Board of Trustees ; vice president of St . Luke ' s Hospital ; a member of the International Board of Directors of the Y . M . C . A . ; trustee of the School of Religion at the University of Iowa ; chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Diocese of Iowa and trustee of Iowa Episcopate Funds ; and vice president of the Morris Plan Bank . He was honored after his death in 1951 by the Quaker Oats Co . , who erected a non - denominational chapel on the Coe College campus , the Poe Chapel , in his memory .