Samuel Poe

Samuel Johnson Poe lived from 27 August 1864 to 10 April 1933 and was an American college football halfback for the Princeton Tigers in 1882 and 1883. He graduated from Princeton University in 1884 and also earned All-American honours as a lacrosse player. He was the eldest of the Poe brothers, a family of six football players who between them played at Princeton from 1882 until 1901. Their father was John Prentiss Poe, himself a Princeton graduate of 1854 and later the Attorney General of Maryland from 1891 until 1895, and the brothers were second cousins, twice removed, of the poet Edgar Allan Poe, who died in 1849. He is described as the eldest of those six brothers.