| Date of birth: | March 2, 1881 |
| Place of birth: | New York City |
| Date of death: | January 11, 1937 (aged 55) |
| Place of death: | New York City |
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| Position(s): | Tackle |
| College: | Harvard University |
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Crawford Blagden (March 2, 1881 – January 11, 1937) was an American football player. He played college football for the Harvard Crimson football team and was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position in 1901.
Crawford was born in 1881 in New York City.[1] His grandfather, Luther C. Clark, was one of the founders of the banking firm, Clark, Dodge & Co.[1] He attended Harvard University where he played for the Harvard Crimson football team. In 1901 he was selected as a consensus All-American tackle.[2] The 1901 Harvard team defeated rival Yale by a score of 17 to 0.[3]
After graduating from Harvard, Blagden served as the line coach at Harvard under Percy Haughton.[1] In 1914, with the outbreak of war in Europe, Blagden and Grenville Clark developed the idea to develop camps to train civilians for potential wartime service as officers.[1] These camps at Plattsburgh, New York, became the Citizens' Military Training Camp. When the United States entered World War I, Blagden was trained at Plattsburgh and served as a lieutenant-colonel in the United States Army in France.[1] In 1918, he led an advance by the 317th Infantry to rescue the survivors of the so-called "Lost Battalion" from the Argonne Forest in France.[4][3]
After the war, Blagden worked for Atlantic Navigation Corporation and later for Joseph Walker & Sons, a stock brokerage company.[1] He retired in 1932.[1] Blagden was married twice. In 1911, he was married to Mary Hopkins, a granddaughter of Williams College president Mark Hopkins.[1] They had a son, Crawford Blagden, Jr. His first wife died in 1912.[3] In 1918, he married his second wife, Minna E. MacLeod of Nova Scotia.[1]
In January 1936, Blagden died at the Harkness Pavilion of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after suffering an attack of influenza. He was 55 years old when he died.[1][5]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Col. Blagden Dies; World War Hero; Veteran of the 307th Helped to Rescue Lost Battalion in Argonne Forest in 1918; Football Star of 1901; Harvard Tackle Returned to His Alma Mater in After Years to Coach Line Players". The New York Times. January 13, 1937. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F16FE3F5E177A93C1A8178AD85F438385F9.
- ↑ "Award Winners". NCAA. 2012. p. 4. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Col. Crawford Blagden Dies From Influenza at 55: Aides in Rescuing Survivors of Lost Battalion; Harvard Football Star". The Lewiston Sun (AP story). January 12, 1937. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19370112&id=tcYgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=omoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6211,971697.
- ↑ "Blagden, Harvard Star, Led Advance: Captain's Men First to Reach Perles". Daily Boston Globe. September 8, 1918. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/714982422.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+08%2C+1918&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=BLAGDEN%2C+HARVARD+STAR%2C+LED+ADVANCE&pqatl=google.
- ↑ "150 Attend Rites for Col. Blagden: Army Officers Act as Honorary Pallbearers at Service in Grace Church". The New York Times. January 15, 1937. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D11FE3F5E177A93C7A8178AD85F438385F9.
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