Sanford White Sanford Brownell " Sammy " White ( May 4 , 1888April 11 , 1964 ) was an American football and baseball player . He played college football for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1910 to 1911 and was a consensus first - team All - American football player in 1911 . He scored every point for the Tigers in their 1911 victories over Harvard and Yale , leading the team to the eastern college football championship . White also played baseball and basketball at Princeton . As team captain , he led Princeton to a baseball championship in 1911 . Early years . White was born at Fall River , Massachusetts , in 1888 . He attended Fall River High School and then preparatory school at Exeter in New Hampshire . White played both baseball and football for Exeter . Princeton . Multi - sport athlete . White enrolled at Princeton University in 1908 . At Princeton , he became a four - sport star , competing in football , baseball , basketball , and track . In December 1911 , he reportedly also tried out for the Princeton ice hockey team . During his sophomore year , he did not play football and played only baseball and basketball . He was selected as the captain of the baseball team as a junior and led the team to a baseball championship . 1911 football season . White reportedly considered baseball his true love , disliked football , and joined the football team in 1911 only after being coaxed into doing so . Having been a substitute on the 1910 football team , he became a starter at left end for the 1911 Princeton Tigers football team . He led the team to the 1911 eastern college football championship . The 1911 Princeton team compiled an 8 - 0 - 2 record and outscored opponents 179 to 15 . In Princeton ' s 8 - 6 victory over Harvard on November 4 , 1911 , White was responsible for all eight points scored by the Tigers . He blocked a field goal attempt by Harvard and then picked up the loose ball and returned it 95 yards for a touchdown . Later in the game , Harvard ' s quarterback caught a punt deep in Harvard ' s territory . White reportedly " hurled himself at the Harvard man in a fierce tackle and threw him back over the goal line for a safety that won the game for Princeton . " Two weeks after the Harvard game , White played his final football game for Princeton against Yale . Princeton had not beaten Yale since 1903 , and the game was played at Yale Field in front of a crowd of 33 , 000 . Princeton won the game 6 - 3 in large part due to the play of White . White recovered five Yale fumbles on a field of ankle - deep mud . He returned one of those fumbles 65 yards for a touchdown for Princeton ' s only score . The " Boston Globe " led its story on the game with a front page headline , " TIGERS ' FOOTBALL HERO FOR PRESIDENT . " " The New York Times " reported on White ' s long run as follows : " He can run , White can . He followed the ball like a hound follows the fox . Ever ready to scoop it up and run with all the speed in his long , lithe limbs . Once out in front he runs like the wind , looks neither to the right nor left , but with his nose pointing toward the enemy ' s goal his cleets tear up the muddy turf and he runs faster and faster until , the leather tucked under his arm in a vise - like grip , he plants it behind the line and wins the game . That ' s Sam White . " White won accolades for his alert play during the 1911 season . One sports writer opined that " football has never known a player with a ' nose for the ball ' like ' Sammy ' White . " Another writer added , " The college football season each year develops a ' hero , ' and this year his name is Sanford B . White , left end of the Princeton team . " Yet another proclaimed him " the greatest athlete the institution [ Princeton ] has ever produced . " Awards and honors . At the end of the 1911 season , White was chosen as a first - team All - American on the teams selected by , among others , Walter Camp , " The New York Globe " , Tommy Clark , Wilton S . Farnsworth , Henry L . Williams , Charles Chadwick , " Baseball Magazine " , and " The Christian Science Monitor " . The Princeton Club of Philadelphia also presented White with a gold cigarette case filled with a piece of sod taken from the spot where White planted the ball in the end zone at Yale Field . White was also the president of Princeton ' s senior class , president of its Senior Student Council , and was voted the most popular , most respected , best all - around man , and the man who did most for his class . He graduated from Princeton in June 1912 . Business career and military service . After graduating from Princeton , White represented International Harvester Corporation in the Midwest . He next worked for the Princeton Bank and Trust Co . In the fall of 1917 , White served as the chairman of the local Liberty Loan committee at Princeton , raising funds to support the allied cause in World War I . In January 1918 , he enlisted in the Aviation Section , U . S . Signal Corps . He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served as a post adjutant . After his discharge from the military , White returned to work for International Harvester . He became the secretary and remained with the company until his retirement in 1947 . Family and later years . In April 1913 , White was married to Jeanette McAusland at Summit , New Jersey . He had two sons , Sanford B . , Jr . , and Charles McAusland , and two daughters , Jean ( married to Edward Bax ) and Priscilla ( married to Ashton Graham ) . He died of a heart attack in April 1964 at age 75 .