Redmond Finney

Redmond Conyngham Stewart Finney Sr (1929 to 2019) was an American football and lacrosse player, wrestler, coach, teacher and school headmaster. At Princeton he was an All-American in both football and lacrosse during the 1950 to 1951 academic year, the football honor coming from the Football Writers Association of America and the International News Service on their 1950 College Football All-America Teams. The source article describes him as the first person ever named first team All-American in two sports in the same academic year, with Jim Brown later the second. In the same senior year he captained the Princeton wrestling team. He turned down an invitation to the Blue-Gray Football Classic to work on a thesis on Protestantism and Catholicism in nineteenth century America. After graduating he served in the Navy during the Korean War, became a teacher and coach, and then headmaster of the Gilman School in Baltimore, his own school, retiring in 1992. He died in Mount Desert, Maine, in 2019.