Charles Rinehart

Charles Ramsay Rinehart

Rinehart as an All-America selection at Lafayette, c. 1897
Date of birth:	December 31, 1875
Place of birth:	Uniontown, New Jersey
Date of death:	October 30, 1933(1933-10-30) (aged 57)
Place of death:	unknown
Career information
Position(s):	G
College:	Lafayette College
Organizations
As player:
1898 1898	Greensburg Athletic Association Western Pennsylvania All-Stars
Career highlights and awards
Honors:	All-America, 1896-97 (Walter Camp)[1]
College Football Hall of Fame

Charles Ramsay Rinehart (December 31, 1875 - October 30, 1933) was an American football player, engineer and businessman. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964.

He played high school football at Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.^[1]

Rinehart was a right guard on the 1896 team at Lafayette under coach Parke H. Davis. At 6'3" and 210 pounds, "Babe" or "Riny" was the biggest man on the team.^[2]

Lafayette and Princeton fought to a scoreless tie in 1896. The two teams were named co-national champions for the season 37 years later by Coach Davis, who had become the sport's pre-eminent historian. From 1898 until 1900, Rinehart played professional football for the Greensburg Athletic Association^[3]. He later played, against Greensburg's wishes, in the very first pro football all-star game for the 1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, against the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club on December 3, 1898.^[4]

In 1934, Davis wrote that Rinehart was "the peer of any player whoever wore a cleated shoe" and "often has been named, with Walter Heffelfinger of Yale, as one of the two greatest foot ball players of all time."^[5]

Rinehart was captain and also played quarterback for the '97 team.^[6]

He graduated from Lafayette in 1899 and became an engineer.^[7] Rinehart was serving as the president of a tire company at the time of his death.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Charles Rinehart, College Football Hall of Fame. Accessed July 3, 2009.
2. ^ "Lafayette College Foot-Ball.", The Lafayette, page 99, January 15, 1897 (misprinted as 1896)
3. ^ Van Atta, Robert (1983). "The History of Pro Football At Greensburg, Pennsylvania (1894-1900)". Coffin Corner (Professional Football Researchers Association) (Annual): 1–14. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/05-An-165.pdf. 
4. ^ PFRA Research. Stars Over All-Stars. Professional Football Researchers Association. pp. 1–5. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Stars_Over_All_Stars.pdf. 
5. ^ Spalding's Official Football Guide of 1934, p. 223
6. ^ "The Football Season Opened Here.", The Lafayette, page 22, October 8, 1897
7. ^ American Institute of Mining Engineers, Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, page xxi, No. 118, October 1916

Persondata
Name	Rinehart, Charles
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 31, 1875
Place of birth	Uniontown, New Jersey
Date of death	October 30, 1933
Place of death	unknown