Charles de Saulles Charles A . de Saulles ( November 22 , 1876 – July 17 , 1962 ) was an All - American football player . He played quarterback for Yale University and was selected for the 1897 College Football All - America Team . All - American football player . A native of South Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , de Saulles attended the Lawrenceville School where he was captain of both the football and baseball teams . DeSaulles was five - feet , eight inches tall and weighed 151 pounds . De Saulles enrolled at Yale University where he played quarterback for the football team in 1897 and 1898 and was selected for the 1897 College Football All - America Team . He was also the captain of Yale ' s baseball team . Jim Rodgers , the captain of the 1897 Yale football team , credited de Saulles with Yale ' s victory over Princeton in 1897 : " I have always claimed that Charlie de Saulles put the Yale ' 97 team on the map . Charlie de Saulles with his three wonderful runs , which averaged not less than 60 yards each , really brought about the victory . " In his book " Football Days , " William Hanford Edwards , who played on the Princeton line in that game , wrote of de Saulles : " De Saulles ' open field work was remarkable . I remember well the great run of fifty - five yards which he made . He was a wonderfully clever dodger and used the stiff arm well . In 1903 , a football columnist wrote that " the equal of Charley de Saulles , however , will probably not be seen at Yale or any other college in many days . " Football coach . In 1906 , the " New York Sun " reported that de Saulles was affiliated with the Lasharpe football team in Iola , Kansas . De Saulles joined the team in 1905 as both a player and a coach . The " Sun " reported that de Saulles and Yale teammate Jim Rodgers were working together at Lasharpe and had turned a group of miners into a football team that had soundly beaten the Haskell Indians and Bethany College , and gone undefeated for two years . The Lasharpe team was seeking games against the major football powers at Michigan , Chicago , Yale and Harvard , leading the " Sun " to write : " Out in the little mining town of Iola , Kans , there is probably the oddest football team in the country . Its members never train , have no practice except signal work , and yet are able to defeat all comers . The eleven is known as the Lasharpe team , is composed of men from the zinc smelting works , and learned its football from two of the best men that ever wore a ' Y ' at New Haven . James Rodgers , captain of the 97 Yale eleven , and Charles A . de Saulles , one of the fastest and most daring quarter backs on Eli ' s long roll of honor , are the coaches who have turned the miners into one of the most effective gridiron machines in the Middle West . " Family . De Saulles was born in South Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , the son of Arthur Brice de Saulles and Catherine Heckscher . His father was a noted soldier in the American Civil War . His younger brother John de Saulles also became an All - American quarterback at Yale . When the younger de Saulles became a star for Yale in his own right , comparisons were made to his older brother : " But there is one particularly bright player on the New Haven team , and he is John Longer de Saulles , the famous quarter back of last fall . Johnny is a brother of Charlie de Saulles , the great football and baseball player of 1898 and 1899 , and his work is true to family traditions . De Saulles plays second base ( Charlie ' s old position ) , and he is snappy and accurate . " Charles de Saulles was married to Louise M . " Birdie " Hoch of Marshall , Michigan . In 1922 , De Saulles ' wife obtained a divorce and was awarded custody of their two sons . It was also reported at that time that Charles de Saulles had remarried . Blanca Errázuriz trial . In August 1917 , John de Saulles was shot and killed by his millionairess Chilean ex - wife , Blanca Errázuriz . The murder and trial became a daily reported news story , relegating the First World War that was raging in Europe to the inside pages of the newspapers . Charles de Saulles was drawn into the media sensation as he defended his brother ' s honor and sought custody of the couple ' s only child . Blanca was unanimously acquitted of the murder charges in December 1917 . Several days after the acquittal , Charles gave up the custody challenge , and " Little Jack " was returned to Blanca .