Douglas Bomeisler
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| Yale Bulldogs | |
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| Position | End |
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| Date of birth | June 20, 1892 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York |
| Date of death | December 28, 1953 (aged 61) |
| Place of death | Greenwich, Connecticut |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (1972) | |
Douglass M. "Bo" Bomeisler (June 20, 1892 – December 28, 1953) was an American college football player. He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1910 to 1912, and was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1911 and 1912. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972.
Bomeisler was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from what is now called Poly Prep Country Day School where he played football.
He enrolled at Yale University where he played for the school's varsity football team in 1910, 1911 and 1912. Playing at the end position, Bomeisler developed a reputation as a fast and powerful player, "a hard and deadly tackler," and the strongest man on the Yale team.
In his first year of eligibility to play for Yale's varsity football team, Bomeisler was injured in the second game of the 1910 football season and missed the remainder of the season.
Early in the 1911 season, Bomeisler injured his shoulder in the Harvard game but continued to play with the injury. He injured his knee in Yale's 1911 game against Princeton. To allow him to continue to play, Bomeisler fabricated a knee brace from leather and steel. After playing through multiple injuries, Bomeisler was selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp and Charles Chadwick. He was also named to the "Football Honor List for 1911," as selected by coaches from the East and West for publication in "Outing" magazine. In selecting Bomeisler as an All-American, Camp wrote that Bomeisler was "powerful, thickset, fast, a terror to his opponents."
In May 1912, Bomeisler was overlooked by Yale's three senior secret societies -- Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head. The Washington Post noted that the omission of Bomeisler was one of the greatest surprises of "tap day," making it the first time in many years that the captain of Yale's football team did not make Skull and Bones.
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