Ted McNair

Theodore Monroe McNair (February 24, 1858 – November 21, 1915) was a Presbyterian missionary and a college football and baseball player for the Princeton Tigers as a halfback and center fielder in the 19th century.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He played at the halfback position.[7][8] He was one of the stars of football's early years of collegiate play.[9]

Ted McNair
Princeton Tigers
PositionHalfback
Class1879
Personal information
Born:(1858-02-24)February 24, 1858
Dansville, New York
Died:November 21, 1915(1915-11-21) (aged 57)
Tokyo, Japan
Career history
CollegePrinceton (1877–1879)
Career highlights and awards
  • National championship (1877, 1878)

McNair sent a photograph of an early Princeton baseball team playing Yale for a history book on the school's athletics program.[10] He visited Japan as a missionary.[11][12] He joined the faculty of Meiji Gakuin University.[13]

He was Scots-Irish and his ancestor came to America in 1738.[14]

References
  1. Presbrey, Frank; Moffatt, James Hugh (1901). Athletics at Princeton. Frank Presbrey Company. p. 285 – via Internet Archive.
  2. "Princeton Alumni Weekly". google.com. 1927.
  3. Davis, Parke Hill (1917). "Football, the American Intercollegiate Game". google.com.
  4. "The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide". google.com. 1920.
  5. "Historical Reality National College Football Champions". wisc.edu.
  6. Pérez, Salvador Larios (June 22, 2011). El Juego que el CAM jugaba...: Orígenes del Futbol Americano en EE.UU. y México (1869-1932). Palibrio. ISBN 9781463301613 – via Google Books.
  7. Davis, Parke Hill (March 10, 1917). "Football, the American Intercollegiate Game". c. Scribner's sons – via Google Books.
  8. Presbrey, Frank; Moffatt, James Hugh (March 10, 1901). Athletics at Princeton: A History. Frank Presbrey Company. p. 117 – via Internet Archive. t.m. mcnair princeton baseball.
  9. "Princeton Alumni Weekly". princeton alumni weekly. March 10, 1911 – via Google Books.
  10. "Princeton Alumni Weekly". princeton alumni weekly. March 10, 1900 – via Google Books.
  11. "McNair, McNear, and McNeir genealogies". Chicago, The author. 1923.
  12. "Princeton Alumni Weekly". 1915.
  13. Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri (2012). Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 24. ISBN 9780807835623.
  14. Crawford, Hannah Louise Macnair (1912). Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair. p. 27.
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