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ARCH CARSON

ARCH CARSON

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Position:
Football, Administrator
Inducted:
2000
  • Considered the founder of UC football.
  • Was captain and principle organizer of UC's first football teams in the 1880s.
  • Captain of the 1888 team that ventured to Oxford, Ohio to play Miami University in the first collegiate football game in the state of Ohio.
  • Devotion to football and sports continued during his long administrative career at UC.
  • Introduced a plan to build an athletic field, complete with spectator seating, on the site on which Nippert Stadium stands today.
  • The original playing field was named Carson Field in his honor, and the playing surface in Nippert Stadium continues to bear that name.
  • UC Athletic Hall of Fame 2000.