death_place death_date birth_place article_title pastschools currentposition birth_date class school name
scarsdale , new york november 29 , 1961 -lrb- age 83 -rrb- massachusetts george a. sawin
 harvard -lrb- 1899 & ndash ; 1900 -rrb- halfback october 1878 graduate harvard crimson george a. sawin
george a. sawin

george alfred sawin -lrb- october 1878 -- november 29 , 1961 -rrb- was an american football player and electrical engineer .
a native of massachusetts , sawin attended harvard college where he played at the halfback position for the harvard crimson football team in 1899 and 1900 .
he was selected as a first-team all-american in 1899 by both the `` new york tribune '' and the `` new york sun '' .
in 1900 , he was named a second-team all-american by both walter camp and caspar whitney .
he later worked as an electrical engineer and lived in scarsdale , new york .
he died at his home in scarsdale in 1961 at age 83 .
