Boss Weeks

Harrison Samuel "Boss" Weeks Jr. (April 3, 1879 – February 25, 1906)[1][2] was an American college football player and coach.

Weeks was the quarterback and on-field leader of Michigan's national champion "Point-a-Minute" teams that went 22–0 and outscored opponents 1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902.

He was born in Fort McIntosh, Texas, where his father, a West Point graduate and career military officer originally from Allegan, Michigan, was stationed at the time.

Boss Weeks enrolled at Michigan in 1899 and played on the school's "scrub team" as a freshman.

[9] As a sophomore, Weeks made the varsity football team where he was the backup quarterback to Edwin McGinnis.

"[11] Weeks started all 11 games at quarterback for the 1901 Michigan Wolverines and had tremendous success with Yost's new system.

Michigan was invited to play in the first Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California, on January 1, 1902, where they defeated Stanford, 49–0.

[17] After graduating from Michigan in 1903, the 23-year-old Weeks was hired as the head football coach at the University of Kansas.

The trio of Boss Weeks (left), Fielding H. Yost (right) and Willie Heston (below) were key individuals in Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" teams of 1901 and 1902.