George Townsend Adee 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 and tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 official. Born in Stonington, Connecticut

Stonington, Connecticut

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, Adee attended Yale University

Yale University

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 where he was the quarterback

Quarterback

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 of the school's football team. In 1894, he was selected as one of eleven players named to the 1894 College Football All-America Team

1894 College Football All-America Team

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. He served in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War

Spanish-American War

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 and World War I

World War I

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. Adee was also a competitive tennis player who appeared six times US Championships singles between 1903 and 1909. In 1964, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame

International Tennis Hall of Fame

The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The hall of fame and honors players and contributors to the sport of tennis and includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indoor tennis facility, and a court tennis facility.-History:The hall of fame and...

 for his contributions as an administrator. He served as the president of the United States Tennis Association

United States Tennis Association

The United States Tennis Association is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels...

 from 1916–1919, and was also a member of the Davis Cup and Amateur Rules Committees. Adee died in New York, New York in 1948 at age 74.

External links

• International Tennis Hall of Fame