Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Paul LeRoy Robeson, '19 Paul Robeson, '19, is considered by most people as Rutgers' greatest athlete. Roby played end on the Rutgers varsity football team for four years. In his senior year he was an end on the Brst all-American eleven, and has been named by many authorities as one of the greatest football players of all time. His football career was not finished in a blaze of glory, but was ended in a rather unsuccessful year. This, how- ever, deteriorates nothing from his value as a player. Roby was also one of the greatest basketball players of Rut- gers, playing varsity center for three years. As catcher on the baseball team for two seasons he made a creditable record and was an excellent weight thrower in track, only having time, however, to win one letter, that in his junior year. In four years Roby un- deniably amassed the best all-round record ever to have been credited to any Rutgers man. He was a member of Cap and Skull, Phi Beta Kappa, Philo, the Glee Club and the Debating Society, and was a class ofricer for two years. His athletic record is probably the best ever held by any one man, for not only did he win ten varsity letters in the four major s orts, but he was also a star in each Branch of athletics in which he participated. H omer Howard Hazel, '25 Football is the one universal topic of conversation among college men. Homer Hazel left future sons of Rut- gers a great deal to talk about when he graduated in 1925. He stands out as the only man ever to make Walter Camp's all-American eleven at two dif- ferent positions in two years, being placed at end in 1923 and at fullback in 1924. Pop, as he was known, first came to Rutgers in 1916, playing on the varsity in his freshman year. He left college at the time of the war, returning in the fall of 1922. He played on four varsity teams, winning his letter in football, basketball and track, inf addi- tion to being a member of the baseball squad. His greatest year was in 1924, when he led the East in points after touchdown with twenty-Eve, and was fourth in scoring, his brilliant running mate, Heinie Benkert, showing the way. In naming him on his mythical team in 1924, Walter Camp rated Hazel as the greatest kicker and passer of the season, and one of the fastest and hard- est running backs. His college record in the shotput has stood since 1924. He was a regular guard on the basket- ball team for two years.

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Rub e hh bi ill E OWN the long line of Loyal Sons of Old Queen's there have been scores and scores of athletes, scores of great athletes. To pick out the greatest of the great would be a tremendous task for any one man or group of men, for it would require hour after hour of careful research through the athletic records of the University to arrive ar a definite choice which the majority of Rutgers alumni, students and friends would agree upon. Athletic greatness may be measured by many methods and judged by many and various circum- stances, thus making the task more diflicult. But in choosing a myth- ical Athletic Hall of Fame, we have selected as our main basis of consideration the amount of service and honor rendered to the college by various wearers of the Scarlet-service and honor rendered by them on the athletic field. No undergraduate is capable of making such a choice, for there is none that has any idea of the great deeds performed on the athletic field by the decades of Rutgers men that have preceded him. Fully realizing this, the editors of the SCARLBT Lerran went to the alumni for help in the task, and assembled a group of six graduates who have been supporters of Rutgers and Rutgers athletics for years, men who have not only studied their contemporaries but have also made themselves familiar with the older athletic chronicles of the college. This Committee of Six, working individually, chose sixteen names for the Athletic Hall of Fame, their votes being practically unanimous on each name. We take pride in publishing the names of the Committee of Six, whose selections of the greatest Rutgers athletes are printed in the following pages: Philip M. Brett, '91g Richard C. Rice, '08, H. Richard Segoine, '08, Earl Reed Silvers, '14, Arthur C. Busch, '15, and Harry J. Rockafeller, '16, In the pages that follow we have endeavored to record the athletic accomplishments of some of Old Queen's most loyal sons, and to show how and why these men were designated as the ones who have done most for Rutgers athletically. ?.......,.,..........k......... ..,..,.-.. ...... ,....t..................,-...T . H..- .... ,Y .YW .. P ,Dk 5 .-,-.,,,,,T..,.m.m..a , 5 fy, ns. Q3 ,JF-L, lil 1 ly bs ce.. ifJ'tr-fra ' fi -' A ai'- H,:-:N-. fl r tm f ,-as M.,-+ 5, 141,73 ,-, af' ,yep -y ii.--an J. u Y az. Ha., tlui -l i 2 W. 'ld-'ff rf this ilafilblfa -,4 , . .. of +- f. a v -' 3 ll -A Q i iy'!11 vi' W ,U A ll ., .5353 if lei tsl ra'-A-'- xii ram li ai te- is ,aff ka by-M-.. gl ,ff le e jg? he-be ee-:1fr.ee:f.eJ,1'L...31Sign. fli,at,.,'i2fm.7-,alla 1': H'2f-S1-2:1-2---r-Q--A---.--a..--.,,c1-ea.,,1,g:::.::m.f.1-.f.-,.ef.s.Q.7..f-e-. ---1-.2 ..- ,-:..,..,.1........,.-....-,.......-.,,.,.-..- ' ' ' Y Y -'S' Milne '5':-P--e

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