Edgar Toll Glass (May 24, 1879 – April 9, 1944) was an American football player. He played college football at Syracuse University and Yale University. He was selected as a consensus All-American at the guard position in 1902.[1][2] Glass played two years of college football at Syracuse before coming to Yale and, after a challenge to his eligibility by Harvard, was declared ineligible to compete in the 1903 football season under the four-year eligibility rule.[3][4][5] He was also a shot putter who participated in the combined Harvard-Yale track team that traveled to England in 1904 to compete against athletes from Oxford and Cambridge.[6] Glass was born in Syracuse, New York, and lived in West Hartford, Connecticut, in his later years. He was a sales manager for Steel and Tubes, Inc.[6][7]

Edgar T. Glass
Yale Bulldogs
PositionTackle
Personal information
Born:(1879-05-24)May 24, 1879
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Died:April 9, 1944(1944-04-09) (aged 64)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Career history
CollegeSyracuse (1900–1901)
Yale (1902)
Career highlights and awards

Notes

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  1. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. p. 4.
  2. ^ "Yales Giant Guard: Edgar T. Glass". Boston Daily Globe. November 14, 1902.
  3. ^ "Glass Out of Football: "Sacrificed to the Letter of a Rule', Says Yale Alumni Weekly". Boston Evening Transcript. February 21, 1903.
  4. ^ "Glass Ineligible". Providence News. January 30, 1903.
  5. ^ "No Excuses at Harvard, But Glass Must Go". The Pittsburgh Press. November 26, 1902.
  6. ^ a b "Edgar T. Glass". The New York Times. April 10, 1944.
  7. ^ "E. T. Glass Dies: Once Yale Athlete; West Hartford Sales Manager; Selected All-American Football Guard in 1902-1903". The Hartford Courant. April 10, 1944. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.
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