Coy, Ted (24 May 1888–08 September 1935), college athlete, coach, and sportswriter, was born Edward Harris Coy in Andover, Massachusetts, the son of Edward Gustin Coy, a master of Phillips Andover Academy, and Helen Eliza Marsh. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1906, two years after his father, its first headmaster, died. Coy earned a B.A. degree in 1910 from Yale College, which had been attended by his father, brother, and two uncles, one of whom was former college president ...
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Coy, Ted (1888-1935), college athlete, coach, and sportswriter
Marcia G. Synnott
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Eckersall, Walter Herbert (1886-1930), football player, referee, and sportswriter
John M. Carroll
Eckersall, Walter Herbert (17 June 1886–24 March 1930), football player, referee, and sportswriter, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Walter Eckersall and Minnie Killerlain. Little is known about his family or early years except that as a boy of seven or eight he began playing “prairie football” on the streets and vacant lots of his neighborhood. This brand of football emphasized a wide-open style of play, including end runs and broken field running. This style ran counter to the prevailing line-smashing tactics that were then widely used in the eastern United States, where football was first developed. Eckersall would be a major force in popularizing this style of football during his career....
