William Goebel (American football)

William Arthur Goebel (June 24, 1887 – February 15, 1960) was an American football player. He played college football at Yale University and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1908 College Football All-America Team.

William Goebel
Goebel, c. 1910
Yale Bulldogs
PositionGuard
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:(1887-06-24)June 24, 1887
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died:February 15, 1960(1960-02-15) (aged 72)
Career history
CollegeYale (1907–1909)
Career highlights and awards

Goebel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887. He was the son of Justus Goebel, the owner of a wholesale and retail carpet business known as Lowry & Goebel. Goebel received his preparatory education at Union High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and in private studies in Cincinnati. He attended college at Yale University, where he was a member of the football, track and wrestling teams. As a guard for the Yale Bulldogs football team, he was a consensus first-team selection for the 1908 College Football All-America Team.[1] He also won wrestling championships in 1907 and 1909 and was elected president of the Wrestling Association during his senior year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon while at Yale.[2]

He died in 1960.

References
  1. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  2. Robert Dudley French, ed. (1910). History of the Class of 1910 Yale College. Yale University. p. 160.
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