Joshua Crane (October 24, 1869 – December 7, 1964) was an American athlete who participated in a number of sports, including court tennis, golf, and polo.
He was a four time United States court tennis champion and was on the team that made the finals of the 1904 U.S. Open Polo Championship.
His grandfather was an iron merchant and his father worked for Enoch and George Francis Train, the United States Department of the Treasury, and the Michigan Central and Eastern Railroads.
[4][5] He graduated from Brookline High School in 1886, Harvard College in 1890 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in electrical engineering in 1892.
[6] That same month he defeated Philip Stockton three games to one to win the National Court Tennis Championship.
[9] That winter, Sands defeated Crane in the finals of the Tuxedo Club's Gold Racquet championship.
Crane's only previous coaching experience came in 1906, when he instructed the Harvard drop kickers during the team's practices.
[36] Before the start of the 1908 season, a committee of six Harvard alumni and captain Francis Burr was formed to hire a football coach and chose Percy Haughton over Crane.
[37] Crane appeared in numerous golf tournaments in the United States, France, and Great Britain.
Mason sought $50,000 in damages for injuries he suffered with Prince allegedly struck him with polo mallet.
Although he was not present when the alleged attack took place, defense counsel James W. Sullivan called on Crane as an expert on the game of polo.
[52] Emery Crane, born in 1901, died in San Diego, California in an accident at the Willite Confection Company in 1924.