[1] Galbreath then attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York as a member of the class of 1890.

In the four years he played football, Cornell's record was a combined 25 wins and 11 losses.

[3][5] After he left Buffalo he moved to New York City, accepting a fellowship in Columbia University.

Before the 1899 school year, he accepted the chair of Pedagogy at Eastern Illinois University (then known as Eastern Illinois State Normal School) before taking the position he died from typhoid fever in New York City, and was buried at Angola, New York.

[7] Born on December 22, 1861, northwest of Ashmore in Coles County, Illinois, he was the second youngest of 13 children of James and Martha Houston Mitchell Galbreath.