Pete Overfield Peter Delome " Pete " Overfield ( April 12 , 1874 - July 1 , 1959 ) was an All - American and professional football player , federal judge and rancher . Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first - team All - American in 1898 and 1899 . He served as a federal district judge in Alaska from 1909 - 1917 . In 1917 , he moved to Casa Grande , Arizona where he lived for the remainder of his life , owning a large ranching operation . Football player . Overfield played center for the Penn Quakers from 1897 – 1899 and was selected as a first - team All - American in both 1898 and 1899 . Overfield was known as a fierce competitor . After Harvard defeated Penn 16 - 0 in 1899 , Overfield tried to prevent Harvard from securing the ball as a trophy in accordance with a custom . A scuffle spread into the stands , and Penn ' s coach ultimately secured the ball from Overfield and made Overfield apologize to the Harvard players . After graduating from Penn , Overfield remained active in football . He was a football coach for a time at Multnomah College and also remained active as a professional football player . Overfield played a total of nine years of college and professional football without ever suffering an injury . He played on the famed 1900 and 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team s in Pittsburgh . The 1901 Homestead team consisted of former college football All - Americans , including Overfield , Bemus Pierce ( Carlisle ) and Arthur Poe ( Princeton ) . The team beat Lafayette 66 - 0 in two ten - minute halves . On November 23 , 1901 , the Homestead Library team featuring Overfield defeated the Blondy Wallace ' s Philadelphia professionals for the professional football championship of the United States . The game was played at the Philadelphia park , and Homestead won by a score of 18 to 0 . The New York Times reported on the game as follows : " Against the well - trained , concerted team work of Homestead they were like so many pigmies . Their line could not hold the fast onslaught of the Western contingent , and after the first ten minutes of play a lack of good physical condition began to assert itself . … The 5 , 000 spectators present shivered through thirty minute halves and at no time during the game was a real opportunity offered to get enthusiastic over the work of Wallace ' s [ Philadelphia ’ s captain ] team . It was an eleven made up of stars against well - trained team work , and the latter triumphed . " In 1903 , Overfield played in a Thanksgiving Day game in Denver on a team composed of old stars of the Sigma Chi fraternity . The 1903 Sigma Chi All - Star team was made up of former All - Americans , including Overfield , Thorpe , Hernstein , Stahl , Starbuck , Van Valken , and Van Hoevenberg . In 1923 , Princeton head coach W . W . " Bill " Roeper named Overfield as the center on his All - Time All - Eastern football team . Roeper wrote , " Pete Overfield would be ideally equipped to act as pivot on any team today just as he was when he played for Pennsylvania twenty - odd years ago . If my recollection is correct Overfield was down the field on kicks with the ends . He was a sure passer and a wonderful defensive man . He played in a day of a tight line , with the center on the line of scrimmage on every play , but his physique , speed and ability would make him readily adaptable to the present day game . . . " Lawyer and judge in Alaska . In 1906 , Overfield moved to Nome , Alaska where he practiced law from 1906 - 1909 . In 1909 , Overfield was appointed by President William Howard Taft as a federal district judge serving in the third judicial district of Alaska . Overfield later went into the mining business in Alaska and served as a director of Oatman Revenue Mines Co . Pioneer and rancher in Arizona . In 1917 , Overfield moved to Arizona where he became involved in farming on a large scale in the Casa Grande Valley . He was a pioneer of the Casa Grande Valley and was a leader in the fight to bring water to the valley . He pioneered the Picacho and San Carlos Dam projects and was a long - time supporter of the Central Arizona Project .