Allan E. Doucette was an All-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. Doucette played at the center

Center (American football)

Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...

 position for Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team

1897 College Football All-America Team

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. Doucette graduated from Harvard as an undergraduate in 1895. He spent the next three years at Harvard Law School graudating in 1898. Doucette then went into the private practice of law. In 1900, Doucette was stricken with typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

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. After an illness of six months, Doucette died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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in January 1901.