death_date highlights article_title pastschools currentposition class school name
april 1931 first-team all-american , 1905 howard roome
 yale -lrb- 1905 -rrb- halfback graduate yale bulldogs howard roome
howard roome

howard le chevalier roome -lrb- -- april 1931 -rrb- was an american football player .
he played halfback for yale university championship teams of 1905 and 1906 and was selected by walter camp as a first-team all-american in 1905 .
roome graduated from yale in 1907 and married amateur golfer florence newman ayres in april 1909 .
in may 1920 , roome won a $ 4,100 bet by climbing the 47 flights of stairs from the sub-cellar to the cupola of the equitable building in new york in 8 minutes , 52 seconds .
he later went into the real estate business and lived in westbury , new york .
he died in april 1931 .
