Charles Rinehart American football player

Charles Ramsay Rinehart (December 31, 1875 – October 30, 1933) was an American football player, engineer and businessman. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964. He played high school football at Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Rinehart was a right guard on the 1896 team at Lafayette under coach Parke H. Davis. At 6'3" and 210 pounds, "Babe" or "Riny" was the biggest man on the team. Lafayette and Princeton fought to a scoreless tie in 1896. The two teams were named co-national champions for the season 37 years later by Coach Davis, who had become the sport's pre-eminent historian. From 1898 until 1900, Rinehart played professional football for the Greensburg Athletic Association. He later played, against Greensburg's wishes, in the very first pro football all-star game for the 1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, against the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club on December 3, 1898. In 1934, Davis wrote that Rinehart was "the peer of any player whoever wore a cleated shoe" and "often has been named, with Walter Heffelfinger of Yale, as one of the two greatest foot ball players of all time. " Rinehart was captain and also played quarterback for the '97 team. He graduated from Lafayette in 1899 and became an engineer. Rinehart was serving as the president of a tire company at the time of his death.

Personal facts

Charles Rinehart
Birth dateDecember 31, 1875
Birth place
Union Township Hunterdon County New Jersey
Date of deathOctober 30, 1933

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American football player

Career start1898
Career end1900
Debut team
Greensburg Athletic Association
Former team
Greensburg Athletic Association
1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team
Position
Guard (American and Canadian football)

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