Josiah McCracken

Josiah McCracken, known as Joe, was an American football player, track and field athlete and physician. At the University of Pennsylvania he played varsity football for four years, mainly as an offensive fullback and defensive guard, and was named to Walter Camp's All-American team three times, a first-team selection in 1899. He set a hammer throw world record in 1898 and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris won silver in the shot put and bronze in the hammer throw, after refusing for religious reasons to compete on a Sunday. After earning his medical degree in 1901 he spent 36 years in China training Chinese doctors, serving as president of the University Medical School in Canton and as dean of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School of China.