Charley Barrett

Bio

Charles Barrett was a triple-threat quarterback for Cornell. He ran the ends, bucked the line, threw passes, punted and drop-kicked. He was a consensus All-America in 1914 and 1915, years in which Cornell had a record of 8-2, then 9-0. The 1915 team was national champion. Barrett's best game was his last. Pennsylvania got off to a 9-0 lead, but Cornell rallied to win 24-9. Barrett scored all the Cornell points. He had touchdown runs of 40, 25 and 3 yards, and he drop-kicked a field goal and three extra points. His performance in this game would later be memorialized by both teammates and opponents. Barrett enlisted in the Navy in World War I, suffered an injury in an explosion in 1918 and died in 1924. On October 17, 1925, a bronze tablet was unveiled in Schoellkopf Memorial Hall on the Cornell campus. It contains these words: "In memory of Charles Barrett, who died May 21, 1924, as a result of illness contracted in an explosion on the U.S.S. Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor, Japan, during the World War. As a tribute to his splendid loyalty and leadership and as homage to a most worthy gridiron adversary, we respectfully dedicate this tablet to Cornell University. - His teammates and friends, and the 1915 Pennsylvania football team."

Career Highlights

• 1915 Consensus All-America
• 1914 Consensus All-America