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team were often stopped after Arthur had made a magnificent tackle and had broken up heavy interference, with this quiet request: 'Pull my bum knee back into place.' After this was done, he would jump up and no one would ever know that it had been out. This man, who perhaps was the smallest man playing at that time, was absolutely unprotected. His suit consisted of a pair of shoes, stockings, unpadded pants, jersey and one elastic knee bandage."
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team after they had both left college, described Poe's grit as an undersized football star. "Arthur Poe was about as game a man as the football world ever saw" said
Crolius. "He was handicapped in his playing by a knee which would easily slip out of place. We men who played with him on the Homestead
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article declared the last-minute winning field goal "Football's
Greatest Moment." Both his winning run in 1898 and kick against the Elis in 1899 were celebrated in comic, quasi-epic poems by fellow Princeton grad M'Cready Sykes in a book entitled "Poe's Run and Other Poems." Of Poe's long touchdown
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Poe's stardom on the gridiron as a junior and senior at
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in 1898 and 1899. In 1898 he took the ball from a Yale runner's grasp and raced 100 yards for the game's only score. This feat, done while Poe had a bad knee, was known as "Poe's Run." Remarkably, he almost repeated the feat in the game's second half when he ran 90 yards with a Yale
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In 1900 and 1901, Poe played for the
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He was honored after his death in 1951 by the Quaker Oats Co., who erected a non-denominational chapel on the Coe
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with only 30 seconds to play. Poe, despite never having before kicked in a game, volunteered to kick because both of
Princeton's
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had left the game due to injury. His kick was good and brought about an 11–10 Princeton victory over Yale. In 1914, a
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line, and in addition to his heroics in Yale games had an 80-yard touchdown run to beat
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for an apparent touchdown before the ball was ruled down where it had been recovered.
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in his junior season. In addition to excelling at football, Arthur was the top
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football second team in 1898 and first team in 1899. He was one of the
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and trustee of Iowa
Episcopate Funds; and vice president of the
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Teall, Edward N. (February 1927). "The Watch Tower".
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624:Art Poe – championships, awards and honors
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501:"Football, The American Intercollegiate Game"
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317:run to beat Yale 6-0 in 1898, Sykes penned:
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167:Career highlights and awards
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580:"Dave Berry and the Philadelphia Story"
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858:1899 College Football All-America Team
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393:Board of Trustees; vice president of
349:Homestead Library & Athletic Club
145:Homestead Library & Athletic Club
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331:and a 40-yard run to help defeat
1060:American football drop kickers
439:""Lambda Chi football greats""
363:first National Football League
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545:"A Guide to Confident Living"
471:College Football Hall of Fame
347:, who played with Poe on the
260:College Football Hall of Fame
228:College Football Hall of Fame
534:"Poe's Run and Other Poems"
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611:"Football Hero to Marry"
85:Place of death
62:Place of birth
19:Not to be confused with
73:Date of death
47:Date of birth
1025:American football ends
600:on November 27, 2010.
578:Carroll, Bob (1980).
195:W. Pennsylvania Champ
860:consensus selections
272:Princeton University
875:Charles Dudley Daly
395:St. Luke's Hospital
383:Quaker Oats Company
365:as a member of the
356:Professional career
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523:"Pittsburgh Press"
512:"The Poe Brothers"
445:on January 5, 2010
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716:Billy Suter
449:January 17,
391:Coe College
276:Walter Camp
102:Position(s)
1004:Categories
801:Lew Palmer
701:Lew Palmer
676:John Baird
420:References
373:Later life
304:field goal
240:Arthur Poe
211:champion (
175:Consensus
114:US college
53:1879-03-22
33:Arthur Poe
866:Backfield
490:(4): 316.
387:Red Cross
341:Dartmouth
262:in 1969.
130:As player
119:Princeton
399:Y.M.C.A.
337:wrestler
21:Art Pope
942:Art Poe
806:Art Poe
706:Art Poe
469:at the
467:Art Poe
308:kickers
25:Art pop
297:fumble
91:, U.S.
68:, U.S.
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343:star
333:Brown
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451:2010
329:Navy
292:Yale
213:1902
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199:1900
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