Boss Weeks
Weeks from the 1903 Michiganensian
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 3, 1879 Fort McIntosh, Texas |
| Died | February 25, 1906 (aged 26) Washington, D.C. |
| Playing career | |
| 1900–1902 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1903 | Kansas |
| 1904 | Beloit |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 11–8–1 |
Harrison Samuel "Boss" Weeks, Jr. (April 3, 1879 – February 25, 1906) was an American football player and coach. He played quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1902 and served as head football coach at the University of Kansas in 1903 and at Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1904. Weeks was the quarterback and on-field leader of Michigan's national champion "Point-a-Minute" teams that went 22–0 and outscored opponents 1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902.
Weeks was born to Harrison Samuel Weeks, Sr. (April 5, 1845 – January 23, 1892) and Julia W. Weeks (née Shoemaker) (March 13, 1852 – November 28, 1930), who married on January 14, 1874 in Fort Union, New Mexico. He was born in Fort McIntosh, Texas, where his father, a West Point graduate and career military officer originally from Allegan, Michigan, was stationed at the time. His parents met while his father was stationed at Fort Union, New Mexico, as his mother's family was from nearby rural Mora County, New Mexico. He spent his early childhood growing up on military posts in New Mexico and Texas, where his father was stationed until the family finally moved back to his father's native Allegan, Michigan in 1888. He was the fourth-oldest of eight brothers, five of whom played football for the University of Michigan, and one sister. Three of the brothers earned varsity letters in football, and the oldest of those three brothers, Alanson Weeks (September 15, 1877 – November 25, 1947), played halfback for the 1898 Michigan team that won the school's first Western Conference championship. His eldest brother, Frank Russel Weeks (March 21, 1876 – March 2, 1947), instead became a soldier like their father and later a civil servant working for the US Treasury Department.
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