Today's Tidbit... The 1909 Exeter-Andover Game and Coaches

The East's domination of early football encouraged schools across the country to hire recent graduates of those schools to coach their teams. The elite Eastern prep schools that played schedules that included small colleges on their schedules hired similar young coaches. For example, a recent article about Walter McCornack provided an example of a Dartmouth grad who coached at Phillips Exeter before taking over at Dartmouth and Northwestern.

Today's Tidbit doubles your pleasure since we will look at the 1909 Phillips Exeter-Phillips Andover game, teams coached by John Glaze and Jess Hawley, respectively. John Glaze was the older of two Glaze brothers who starred at Dartmouth, with John captaining football his junior and senior seasons and baseball as a senior. Jess Hawley was John’s teammate on the 1907 football team.

Exeter and Andover entered the game with comparable records, though Andover had lost early season games, while Exeter won early and tailed off as academic suspensions claimed a few stars. Still, the teams had faced three common opponents -Cushing Academy, the Harvard Freshmen, and the Yale Freshmen- with Andover losing to all three while Exeter had come out on top each time.

Team captains. (‘Winner At Exeter Today Hard To Name,' Boston Globe, November 6, 1909.)