Edward Dillon ( American football ) Edward A . " Eddie " Dillon ( c . 1885 – January 30 , 1935 ) was an American football player and judge . He was the quarterback of the Princeton Tigers football team for four years from 1905 to 1908 and was selected as a first - team All - American in 1906 and 1907 . He served as a state court judge in New Jersey from 1922 until the time of his death in 1935 . Biography . Early years . Dillon was born in Methuen , Massachusetts in 1885 . He was the son of Edward Dillon of Lawrence , Massachusetts , who was considered " one of the best printers in New England . " Dillon attended Phillips - Andover Academy before enrolling at Princeton University . Princeton . At Princeton , Dillon was the quarterback for the university ' s football teams from 1905 to 1908 . He also played center field and second base for Princeton ' s baseball team , returned punts and kickoffs for the football team , and was the first Princeton quarterback to make use of the forward pass . Sports columnist Lawrence Perry later wrote that Dillon was " as intrepid a ball carrier , as game a defensive back as ever wore orange and black stripes . " Perry described Dillon as follows : " Eddie Dillon was an Irish boy from Massachusetts , resilient as a Damascus blade , the temper of which he approximated physically and mentally . He had clear gray eyes , a lean square jaw and a will of his own . His pride was the pride of a boy sensitive to the last degree . " In 1906 , Dillon was selected as a first - team All - American by Casper Whitney and " The New York Times " . In 1907 , he was selected as a first - team All - American by Fielding H . Yost and a second - team All - American by Walter Camp and Casper Whitney . He was also selected as captain of Princeton ' s football team for the 1908 season . In the 1908 publication " Spalding ' s How to Play Football , " Dillon ' s contributions to the Princeton football team were described as follows : " Dillon of Princeton is one of the cleverest quarters that ever handled the ball . Not only does he drive his team well , but he uses his plays with judgment , and he himself is a wonder at catching kicks and running them back . He does not himself enter into the interference or the push as much as some other quarters , and Princeton ' s plan of play does not give him the kind of forward passing to do as mentioned above in the case of Jones . He acts as though he could perform these duties if they were given him , and I look to see him develop along this line this season . " As a senior in 1908 , Dillon was the captain of Princeton ' s football team , but he missed almost the entire season on account of injuries . At the end of the 1908 season , Casper Whitney wrote in selecting his All - American team that " Dillon of Princeton would undoubtedly have had the call for quarter if he had been able to play , but his injury rendered him practically of no use to his team . " Later years . In 1910 , Dillon was hired as the head football coach at the University of Missouri in Columbia , Missouri , but he was released from his contract in March 1910 " on the plea that business complications in Philadelphia necessitated his removal there . " Dillon played professional football for the Lyceum team in Pittsburgh . The Lyceum team was undefeated from 1910 to 1912 . During World War I , Dillon served as a pilot with the rank of ensign in the U . S . Navy ' s Naval Aviation Corps . He served as a judge of New Jersey ' s first judicial district from 1922 until his death in 1935 at age 50 . Dillon died on the handball courts of the Montclair Athletic Club in Montclair , New Jersey .