William E. Dodge, III

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

William Earl Dodge III (18581886) was a college football player at Princeton University, captain of the national champion 1877 Princeton Tigers football team.[1] He also led the meeting of the group on Nov. 18, 1876, in East College that launched the collegiate branch of the International YMCA.[2] 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.[3]

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