William Charles Wurtenburg was an American college football player and coach. He played for Yale from 1886 through 1889, and again in 1891; two of those teams were later recognized as national champions. He later became a physician, setting up a medical office near his house in Newhaven, Connecticut, and became an ear, nose and throat specialist. He died in 1957 at the age of 93.
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William Charles Wurtenburg was an American college football player and coach. He played for Yale from 1886 through 1889, and again in 1891; two of those teams were later recognized as national champions. His 35-yard run in a close game in 1887 against rival Harvard earned him some fame. He received his medical degree from Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School in 1893. The following year, the United States Naval Academy hired him to coach their football team. He then accepted a coaching job at Dartmouth College, where for the next four years he led them to perfect records against both of their Triangular Football League opponents. He died in 1957 at the age of 93, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was credited as one of the people who made the game \”undoubtedly the finest ever played in America\”, according to writer Richard Melancthon Hurd. His final contribution to football was publishing a book about Yale football in the early 20th century. He also played baseball for the same school, Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was captain of the baseball team in 1884 and 1885. He later became a physician, setting up a medical office near his house in Newhaven, Connecticut, and became an ear, nose and throat specialist. He had a son, George M.
and Elizabeth Hochschild, who immigrated from Germany in 1848. He attended primary school in the Clarksville public school system. For secondary schooling he attended the Griffith Institute in Springville, New York and then Forestville Academy before gaining admittance to Phillips Exeters Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He served as quarterback and team captain in 1885, leading the team to a 29–11 victory over rival Phillips Academy. In 1890, he served as the co-editor of The Banner, one of Yale’s schoolbooks, and was the club’s toast to the Exeter Exeter Club’s athletics club’s banquet that year. In September of his graduating year, he announced that he would be entering the Sheffield Scientific Scientific School. In 1891, he was asked to present the toast at Exeter’s first annual banquet, held that year to represent the school’s athletics athletics club. In his final season of football at the university, he apparently gave up his spot on the team, after he was thrown out of the team in the 1889 season. In 1899, his fifth season as coach, his team went 2–7 and lost both of its conference games. The next year he shifted into his former position at quarterback, and took the starting spot and became a leader of theteam.
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