# Roscoe Channing

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{{Short description|American football player (1868–1961)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
|image=Roscoe Channing.jpg
|birth_date=January 7, 1868
|birth_place=[New York City](/source/New_York_City), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1961|4|1|1868|1|7}}
|death_place=[Tucson, Arizona](/source/Tucson%2C_Arizona), U.S.
|currentposition=[Halfback](/source/Halfback_(American_football))
|pastschools=[Princeton](/source/Princeton_Tigers_football) (1889)
|highlights= 
* Consensus [All-American](/source/All-America_college_football_team) ([1889](/source/1889_All-America_college_football_team))
|weight_lb=141
|CollegeHOF=
}}
'''Roscoe H. Channing, Jr.''' (January 7, 1868 – April 1, 1961) was an All-American [football](/source/American_football) player, member of the [Rough Riders](/source/Rough_Riders) and mining executive.  Channing was an All-American [halfback](/source/Halfback_(American_football)) for [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University).  He was one of eleven players selected by [Caspar Whitney](/source/Caspar_Whitney) for the first ever [All-America college football team](/source/All-America_college_football_team) in 1889.<ref>The All-America team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4844195/Awards-compiled-NCAA-2008-Record-Book-Division-1-Football NCAA guide to football award winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714223946/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4844195/Awards-compiled-NCAA-2008-Record-Book-Division-1-Football |date=2009-07-14 }}</ref>  When the [Spanish–American War](/source/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War) commenced in 1898, Channing enlisted in [Theodore Roosevelt](/source/Theodore_Roosevelt)'s [Rough Riders](/source/Rough_Riders).  Roosevelt took pride in how many Ivy League football players enlisted in the Rough Riders.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Bernstein|title=Football: The Ivy League origins of an American obsession, p. 64|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=2001|isbn=0-8122-3627-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Marshall|title=The Story of the Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry; The Regiment in Camp and on the Battle Field|publisher=Q. W. Dillingham Co. |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/stream/storyofroughride01mars/storyofroughride01mars_djvu.txt}}</ref>  Channing later went into the mining business and managed the mining operations of the Whitney family.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mining Impact in Saskatchewan (Timeline)|publisher=Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre|url=http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/ethnography/dene/resources/mining.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611035527/http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/ethnography/dene/resources/mining.html|archivedate=2011-06-11}}</ref>  In the 1920s, he formed a partnership with his friend [Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney](/source/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_Whitney).<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Alfred Wright|title=Sonny Whitney: A Success In Spite Of His Money|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=1961-09-04|url=  https://vault.si.com/vault/1961/09/04/sonny-whitney-a-success-in-spite-of-his-money/|archive-url=  https://archive.today/20121203003331/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1072955/index.htm|url-status=  live|archive-date=  December 3, 2012}}</ref>  The two formed the [Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company](/source/Hudbay) in [Flin Flon](/source/Flin_Flon), [Saskatchewan](/source/Saskatchewan), Canada, and Channing served as the company's President.<ref name=Obit>{{cite news|title=Roscoe Channing Dead: Ex-President of Hudson Bay Mining Co. in Canada, 93|work=The New York Times|date=1961-04-04}}</ref>  Channing died in 1961.<ref name=Obit/>

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Category:1961 deaths
Category:1868 births
Category:19th-century players of American football
Category:All-American college football players
Category:American football halfbacks
Category:American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
Category:American businesspeople in mining
Category:Princeton Tigers football players
Category:Players of American football from New York City

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