Roscoe H. Channing, Jr. (January 7, 1868 – April 1, 1961) was an All-American football player, member of the Rough Riders and mining executive.
He was one of eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney for the first ever College Football All-America Team in 1889.
[1] When the Spanish–American War commenced in 1898, Channing enlisted in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Roosevelt took pride in how many Ivy League football players enlisted in the Rough Riders.
[4] In the 1920s, he formed a partnership with his friend Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.