Greatest Football Player of All Time...

May 8, 1910 - Walter Eckersall writes the Greatest Football Player of All Time article. The article starts by giving credentials to Walter Eckersall. Eckersall was selected three consecutive years by Walter Camp to be what is the equivalent of First Team All-America and even made Camp’s All-Time All-American team as the QB! The brilliant quarterback played, of course, for Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago, and all of this definitely qualified Eckersall to determine the greatest player of all time, for at least the first 30 years of American football.

Eckersall chose Ted Coy from Yale for this honor. Coy, Eckersall exclaims, “possessed superhuman endurance, who more than any other man was responsible for Yale’s football triumphs in the last three years...who by his clean playing and true college sportsmanship on and off the field which has done much to elevate the popular college sport belongs the honor of being the greatest football player of all time.” We will examine the career of Mr. Coy more closely in a few weeks on his May 23 birthday edition of the Football History Headlines.