William E. Dodge, III

Earl Dodge
Princeton Tigers
Position	Halfback
Class	1879
Career history
College	Princeton (1876–1878)
Personal information
Date of birth	1858
Date of death	1886
Career highlights and awards
National championship (1877)

William Earl Dodge III (1858–1886) was a college football player at Princeton University, captain of the national champion 1877 Princeton Tigers football team. He also led the meeting of the group on Nov. 18, 1876, in East College that launched the collegiate branch of the International YMCA. His brother Cleveland Hoadley Dodge attended Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts with his brother, and was a good friend of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. Dodge died in 1886, and is the namesake of Dodge-Osborn Hall.