[2] At Princeton, he played on the football team as a halfback and fullback, and was considered an expert drop kicker.
[1] After Princeton head coach Bill Roper resigned to focus on his business, the school offered the job to Eddie Hart, but he declined the full-time position.
[5] Cunningham was invited to return as head coach in 1913, but declined to attend to "business duties".
[7] In the Fall of 1917, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant at Camp Hancock in Augusta, Georgia, and served in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps.
[3] On March 30, 1918, he was seriously hurt in an aircraft accident at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, suffering a dislocated hip and fractured arm.