Art Howe (American football)
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| Date of birth | March 3, 1890 |
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| Place of birth | South Orange, New Jersey |
| Date of death | March 28, 1955 (aged 65) |
| Place of death | Plymouth, New Hampshire |
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| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| College | Yale University |
Arthur Howe (March 3, 1890 – March 28, 1955) was an American football player and coach, teacher, minister and university president. He played college football for Yale University from 1909 to 1911, was the quarterback of Yale's 1909 national championship team, and was a consensus first-team All-American in 1912. He was the head coach of the 1912 Yale football team. Howe was later ordained as a Presbyterian minister and taught at Eastern preparatory schools and at Dartmouth College. From 1930 to 1940, he was the president of Hampton University. He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.
Howe was born in South Orange, New Jersey, in 1890. His father, Solomon Howe (born April 1856), was a Massachusetts native and was a wholesaler dealer of dry goods. His mother, Mable Rose (Almy) Howe (born September 1863), was a New York native. Howe played high school football at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey and at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Howe enrolled at Yale University in 1908. He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team as a quarterback from 1909 to 1911. As a sophomore in 1909, Howe led the team to a perfect 10–0 record, as the Yale team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 209–0. At the end of the 1909 season, Howe was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp. After another strong year in 1910, Howe was unanimously elected by his teammates as the captain of Yale's 1911 football team. As a senior, he set a collegiate record by returning 18 kicks in a November 1911 game against Princeton. After the 1911 season, Howe was selected as the first-team All-American quarterback by Collier's Weekly (as selected by Walter Camp),The New York Globe,W.S. Farnsworth,Dr. Henry L. Williams, and Charles Chadwick.
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