Albert Journeay was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player. A native of Piermont, New York

Piermont, New York

Piermont is a village in Rockland County, New York, United States. Piermont is in the town of Orangetown, located north of the hamlet of Palisades; east of Sparkill and south of Grand View-on-Hudson, on the west bank of the Hudson River. The population was 2,607 at the 2000 census.The village's...

, he grew up in Leonia, New Jersey

Leonia, New Jersey

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. He attended the Mt. Hermon School before enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. Journeay played at the guard

Guard (American football)

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 and center

Center (American football)

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 positions for Penn's football teams from 1912 to 1914. At the end of the 1913 season, he was elected by his teammates as the captain of the 1914 football team. At the end of the 1914 season, he was selected as a first-team All-American by James P. Sinnot of the New York Evening Mail, the Washington Herald, Newark Evening Star, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Journeay graduated from Penn in 1915 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. After graduating from Penn, Journeay had a career in banking in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga, Tennessee

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