# Frederick Tibbott

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American football player and novelist (1885–1965)

Frederick Tibbott Profile Position Halfback Personal information Born (1885-12-11)December 11, 1885 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Died August 20, 1965(1965-08-20) (aged 79) Career information High school Germantown Academy College Princeton (1907–1908) Awards and highlights Consensus All-American (1908)

**Frederick Merrill Tibbott** (December 11, 1885 – August 20, 1965) was an American [college football](/source/College_football) player and novelist. He played football at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) and was a consensus selection at the [halfback](/source/Halfback_(American_football)) position on the [1908 College Football All-America Team](/source/1908_College_Football_All-America_Team).

Tibbott was born in [Indianapolis, Indiana](/source/Indianapolis%2C_Indiana) in 1885, and moved with his family to [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia) in 1901. He attended the [Germantown Academy](/source/Germantown_Academy), where he was a member of the football, baseball and track teams.[1] He played halfback for the [Princeton Tigers football](/source/Princeton_Tigers_football) team in 1907 and 1908. In October of 1907, he ran 100 yards for a touchdown against Bucknell.[2] In November of 1907, Tibbott scored a touchdown and helped Princeton defeat the Carlisle Indians, starring [Jim Thorpe](/source/Jim_Thorpe), by a 16-0 score. One newspaper wrote of Tibbott's performance against Carlisle: "Tibbott was the slim, wiry Tiger who did most of this work. He played superb football for Princeton on the offense and was a man of might out of all proportion to his bounds."[3]

In 1908, Tibbott was selected as a consensus first-team [All-American](/source/All-American).[4] He did not receive a degree from Princeton, reportedly due to "trouble with his eyes in senior year."[1]

He left Princeton in December of 1908 and worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Panama Mining Company in Nicaragua, the [United States Forestry Service](/source/United_States_Forestry_Service) in Colorado, the Norfolk & Portsmouth Traction Co., the Virginia Railway & Power Co., and the Emerson Piano Company in Boston. He married Edith Eddy Milliken in 1914 and served with the U.S. Army Engineers in [World War I](/source/World_War_I).[1] He was stationed at [Camp A. A. Humphreys](/source/Camp_A._A._Humphreys), Virginia and became a first lieutenant.[5]

After the war, Tibbott moved to [Chesterville, Maine](/source/Chesterville%2C_Maine), and pursued a career in writing. His work, "Simon Hastings: A Novel Of Maine's North Country" was published in 1942.[6] He also had short stories published in the *Saturday Evening Post,* among other periodicals. After his first wife died in 1942, Tibbott was remarried to Edith Joanna Hawes. He died in 1965 at age 79.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Prince_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Prince_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Prince_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Prince_1-3) ["Frederick Merrill Tibbott '09"](https://books.google.com/books?id=0RhbAAAAYAAJ). *Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 66*. October 13, 1965. p. 15.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Tibbott's 100-Yard Run: Princeton Half back Makes Star Play in Game with Bucknell"](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/10/13/104710491.pdf) (PDF). *The New York Times*. October 13, 1907.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** "Tigers Stop the Onward Career of the Indians". *The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.)*. November 3, 1907. p. Sports.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181126094941/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/awards.pdf) (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from [the original](http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf) (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** "Col. Payson On Road to Recovery", *[The Music Trades](/source/The_Music_Trades_(magazine))*, volume LVI, number 14, October 5, 1918, page 13.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** F.M. Tibbott (1942). *Simon Hastings: A Novel Of Maine's North Country*. Bobbs Merrill.

v t e 1906 Princeton Tigers football—national champions James Cooney Edward Dillon Heman L. Dowd Edwin Harlan Jim McCormick Frederick Tibbott Caspar Wister Head coach Bill Roper

v t e 1908 College Football All-America Team consensus selections Backfield QB Ed Lange QB Walter Steffen HB Hamilton Corbett HB Bill Hollenback HB Frederick Tibbott FB Ted Coy Line E Hunter Scarlett E George Schildmiller T Hamilton Fish T Bill Horr T Percy Northcroft G Hamlin Andrus G William Goebel G Bernard O'Rourke G Clark Tobin C Charles Nourse

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