[1] Newman played for the Cornell football team during all three years in which Glenn "Pop" Warner was the head coach.
In supporting the selection, the New York Sun wrote: "Although Bill Newman never weighed 170 pounds, he had the reputation of being the strongest man physically who ever attended Cornell.
Although he attained his greatest fame as an oarsman, Newman was a bull on the gridiron with a punishing drive that carried opponents back to China.
That fall, Warner took over as the head football coach of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
He spent time in the Western United States treating American bison in Yellowstone National Park.