J. Edwin Michael

James Edwin Michael (May 13, 1848 – December 7, 1895), known as "Big Mike", was an American college football player for the Princeton football team, who was the best player in the first college football game.

Early life and education He was born on May 13, 1848 in Michaelsville in Harford County, Maryland to Jacob J. Michael, a large landowner in Harford County. He grew up on his father's farm near the Chesapeake Bay.

He was educated at St. Timothy's Hall in Catonsville, Maryland and then at the Newark Academy, a Presbyterian secondary school in Newark, Delaware, which later became the University of Delaware.

Princeton In 1869, he played for the Princeton Tigers in the first ever college football game against Rutgers College (later Rutgers University). After his graduation from Princeton, he was considered by many to be the best athlete to have ever attended the college.

Education after Princeton He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1871, and his medical degree from the University of Maryland in College Park in 1873. Then he studied for a year abroad at Wurzburg, Germany and Vienna, Austria in 1873 and 1874.

Medical career From 1874 to 1880, he served as a demonstrator of anatomy, and then a professor of anatomy until 1890. Then he was a professor of obstetrics until 1895 at the University of Maryland.

He was editor of the Maryland Medical Journal, the president of the Clinical Society, and the president of the Baltimore Medical Society.

Publications

The American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Obstetric Antisepsis. , J. Edwin Michael, 1895