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William Goebel (American football)

William Goebel
Goebel, c. 1910
Yale Bulldogs
PositionGuard
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:(1887-06-24)June 24, 1887
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died:February 15, 1960(1960-02-15) (aged 72)
Career history
CollegeYale (1907–1909)
Career highlights and awards

William Arthur Goebel (June 24, 1887 – February 15, 1960) was an American football player. He played college football at Yale University and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1908 College Football All-America Team.

Goebel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887. He was the son of Justus Goebel, the owner of a wholesale and retail carpet business known as Lowry & Goebel. Goebel received his preparatory education at Union High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and in private studies in Cincinnati. He attended college at Yale University, where he was a member of the football, track and wrestling teams. As a guard for the Yale Bulldogs football team, he was a consensus first-team selection for the 1908 College Football All-America Team.[1] He also won wrestling championships in 1907 and 1909 and was elected president of the Wrestling Association during his senior year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon while at Yale.[2]

He died in 1960.

References

  1. ^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  2. ^ Robert Dudley French, ed. (1910). History of the Class of 1910 Yale College. Yale University. p. 160.
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