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

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  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.