caption player_team death_date coach_years birth_place player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team awards cfbdwid sport birth_date image article_title name
steckle association football guide , 1899 '' pictured in '' the official national collegiate athletic michigan 5 march 1938 1901 -- 1903 1904 -- 1905 freeport , michigan tackle 16 -- 14 -- 2 1897 -- 1899 nevada oregon agricultural all-american , 1898 2221 football july 1872 steckle , umich.png allen steckle
 allen steckle
allen steckle

allen chubb `` a. c. '' steckle -lrb- july 1872 -- march 5 , 1938 -rrb- was an american football player and coach .
he played tackle for the university of michigan from 1897 -- 1899 and later served as the head football coach at the university of nevada and oregon state university , then known as oregon agricultural college .
steckle was selected as an all-american in 1898 and achieved fame in 1903 when his nevada sagebrush team , drawn from a school with 80 students , defeated the university of california football team .
