1901 Dartmouth vs. Brown Broadside

 1901 was a rebuilding year for Dartmouth after three successive years of failures, particularly against rivals Brown and Wesleyan.  Walter McCornack, Dartmouth ’97 was brought in as head coach and John W. Bowler (ex-assistant trainer at Harvard) was hired for his well-known expertise.

From left to right in this very unusual Dartmouth vs. Brown broadside, announcing the November 28^th game, are trainer John W. Bowler, Captain J.C. O’Connor and head coach Walter McCornack.  This is an important piece of Dartmouth football’s “reconstruction” era history.

McCornack had been Captain of the Dartmouth football team in 1895 and 1896. After graduating he spent three years coaching Phillips Exeter and then came back to coach Dartmouth in 1901 and 1902.

J.C. O’Connor, Captain of the 1901 team went on to coach football at Bowdoin, Andover and other institutions before returning to Dartmouth as head coach in 1907 and 1908.

John Bowler, the ex-Harvard assistant trainer spent many years at Dartmouth, besides football, in a number of capacities, including coaching track and gymnastics.

Dartmouth’s record for 1901 was 10 and 1, losing only to Harvard.

This book, Three Years of Football of Dartmouth, is exclusive to the 1901, 1902 and 1903 football seasons.

Neilson “Net” Poe / Class of 1897 Freshman Football Team Photo c. 1893

 Neilson was the third youngest of the six Poe brothers that attended and played football at Princeton. He played for the varsity in 1895 and 1896. After serving in WWI  (awarded the French War Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross) Poe returned to Princeton as an assistant coach, a position he held for 44 years.

Poe is pictured front row (seated) center with other members of the class of 1897 freshman football team; photo taken in 1893. Information on the Poes appears elsewhere in this blog, including entries dated February 13, 2014, March 23, 2014, June 25, 2014, October 17, 2017, December 25, 2020, December 31, 2020,and December 18, 2021 and January 22, 2023.

 A number of other members of the class, pictured in this photo also played on the University Eleven. Among them, two rows back from Poe, and directly behind him is W.W. Church; related  blog entries July 21, 2013,  September 14,2013,  January 2, 2014,  February 13, 2014,  November 2, 2014 and June 18, 2017.

Cover photo of the program for the “Princeton Dinner To The Championship Football Team Of 1925”. A somewhat older Neilson Poe, (Scrub / Assistant Coach) seated in the front row.