Benjamin Dibblee

Benjamin Dibblee

Dibblee pictured in The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide, 1899
Harvard Crimson
Position Halfback
Class Graduate
Career history
College Harvard University (1895–1898)
High school Groton School
Personal information
Date of birth July 8, 1876
Place of birth Ross, California
Date of death November 11, 1945 (aged 69)
Place of death near Fairfield, California
Career highlights and awards

Benjamin Harrison Dibblee (July 8, 1876 – November 11, 1945)[1][2] was an All-American football player who played halfback for Harvard University. Dibblee attended preparatory school at the Groton School where he played on the football team and took a prominent role in athletics.[3] Dibblee was small for a football player, even by the standards of the 1890s, standing 5 feet, 8-8½ inches, and weighing only 156 pounds.[3] He enrolled at Harvard in 1895 and played on the fresham football team that year. In 1896, he played on the varsity team where he played in one or two games at fullback.[3] He was a starter for Harvard throughout his junior season in 1897.[3] As a senior in 1898, Dibblee was selected as captain of Harvard's football team and as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp,[4] Casper Whitney for Harper's Weekly,[5] the Syracuse Herald,[6] the New York Sun,[7] and the New York Evening Telegram.[8] In late November 1897, Dibblee was elected by his teammates as the captain of the 1898 Harvard football team.[9] As of 1913, Dibblee was the Pacific Coast manager for a firm of brokers.[10]

References

  1. ↑ California Historical Society (1946). California Historical Society Quarterly (v. 25-26). California Historical Society. ISSN 0008-1175. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  2. ↑ White, J.T. (1967). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time 35. University Microfilms. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Five Leading Football Players Who Will Command The Elevens of the Big Five". The World (NY). 1898-09-26.
  4. ↑ [Walter Camp Football Foundation http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards/P100/]
  5. ↑ "All-American Eleven of 1898". Harper's Weekly. 1898.
  6. ↑ "All-American Eleven". Sunday Herald, Syracuse, NY. 1898-11-27.
  7. ↑ "All American Team What Janeway of Princeton Thinks of This Year's Football Players". New Haven Evening Register. 1898-11-24.
  8. ↑ "Another All-American Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1898-11-29.
  9. ↑ "Dibblee To Captain Harvard: Crimson Yield the Palm to Pennsylvania" (PDF). The New York Times. 1897-11-21.
  10. ↑ "Caminetti Trial Gets Quick Start" (PDF). The New York Times. 1913-08-23.