American football player and coach (1895–1976)
John Timothy Callahan (March 29, 1895[ 1] [ 2] American football player and coach. He attended preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts , and then enrolled at Yale University .[ 3] guard position for the Yale Bulldogs in 1916 and 1919 to 1920, and was a consensus first-team selection on the 1920 College Football All-America Team .[ 4] World War I by service as a pilot in the Naval Aviation Corps. He was stationed at Newport, Rhode Island , and later in South America , before being discharged in 1919.[ 5] [ 6] 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team while his brother Henry "Mike" Callahan was captain of the 1920 Princeton Tigers football team .[ 7]
Head coaching record
References
^ Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. John Timothy Callahan, born March 29, 1895, at Lawrence, Mass. Serving in the Naval Reserve at Newport, R.I.
^ "John T Callahan in the U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010" . Ancestry.com . Retrieved August 16, 2021 .^ "Notable Alumni" . Phillips Academy. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2014 .^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2014 .^ History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University . Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1920. pp. 58– 59.^ "Old Schoolboy Companions Contend on Rival Elevens" . The Harvard Crimson . November 22, 1919.^ "Callahan Brothers to Lead Princeton and Yale Elevens" (PDF) . The New York Times . December 4, 1919.
