William E. Dodge III

Earl Dodge
Princeton Tigers
Position Halfback
Class 1879
Career history
College
Personal information
Born: 1858
Died: 1886
Career highlights and awards
  • National championship (1877)

William Earl Dodge III (1858–1886) was a college football player at Princeton University, captain of the national champion 1877 Princeton Tigers football team.[1] He also led the meeting of the group on Nov. 18, 1876, in East College that launched the collegiate branch of the International YMCA.[2] His brother Cleveland Hoadley Dodge attended Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts with his brother, and was a good friend of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. Dodge died in 1886, and is the namesake of Dodge-Osborn Hall.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Athletics at Princeton". google.com.
  2. ↑ "Princeton Alumni Weekly: Rally 'Round the Cannon". princeton.edu.
  3. ↑ "Dodge-Osborn Hall". princeton.edu.
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