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Jac Weller
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died:August 18, 1994(1994-08-18) (aged 81)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight195 lb (88 kg)
Career history
College
High school
The Hun School
Career highlights and awards
College Football Hall of Fame (1957)

John "Jac" Weller (January 6, 1913 – August 18, 1994) was an American

guard position. He played for Fritz Crisler's Princeton Tigers football team at Princeton University
that went 25–1 during Weller's three years on the team. Weller later became known as a firearms expert and published several works on munitions and military history.

Football player at Princeton

Weller was born in

The Hun School before enrolling at Princeton University.[1] At Princeton, Weller was a star lineman for Fritz Crisler's Princeton Tigers football championship teams of the mid-1930s. Crisler began the practice of having players wear numbers on their jerseys while Weller was a student, and Crisler assigned the number 99 to his best player—Jack Weller.[2] During Weller's three seasons at Princeton, the football team compiled a record of 25 wins against a single loss. The only loss was a 7-0 loss to rival Yale in 1934. In 1935, Princeton had a perfect record of 9-0, and Weller was recognized as a consensus All-American at the guard position. Weller later recalled, "We had one of the finest bunch of football players ever to come to Princeton...in four years, no major opponent ever scored more than one touchdown on us."[3] He was drafted in the seventh round of the 1936 NFL Draft.[4]

Later years

After graduating, and marrying Cornelia Murray, Weller settled in

Nicola Sacco was guilty, and Bartolomeo Venzetti not guilty of the 1920 murders for which both were convicted.[6] He was also the author of several books on military weapons and tactics.[3]
His published works include:

Weller was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Weller was also one of the initial inductees into The Hun School's Athletic Hall of Fame.[15]

Weller died in 1994 in Princeton at age 81 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Brown University Library. His farm eventually became the basis for Barbara Smoyer Park in Princeton.[17]

References

  1. ^ William Wallace, Yale's Ironmen, iUniverse, Incorporated, (September 2005), p. 58
  2. ^ William Wallace, Yale's Ironmen, p. 66
  3. ^ a b c John "Jac" Weller at the College Football Hall of Fame
  4. ^ "1936 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  5. ^ "Don't Tread on Me". Denton Record-Chronicle. 1970-11-27.
  6. ^ a b "New Tests Absolve Vanzetti, Tag Sacco As 1920 Killer". Fresno Bee Republican (UP wire story). 1962-02-07.
  7. JSTOR 1982625
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  8. ^ Nathan Bedford Forrest, A Redleg in Disguise Archived June 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  9. JSTOR 1983343
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  10. ^ Jac Weller (1998). On Wellington: The Duke and His Art of War. Greenhill Books.
  11. ^ "Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808–1814". Good reads.
  12. ^ Jac Weller (1967). Wellington at Waterloo. New York, Crowell.
  13. ^ Cornelia and Jac Weller, "Recollections of John Gale Hun," Princeton, New Jersey, 31 August 1978
  14. ^ Jac Weller. "Good and Bad Weapons for Vietnam" (PDF). Military Review. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  15. ^ "Athletic Hall of Fame". The Hun School. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  16. ^ "Town Topics". Donald C. Stuart, Jr., 1946-1981, Dan D. Coyle, 1946-1973, Donald C. Stuart III, 1981-2001, Lynn Adams Smith, 2001-. 31 August 1994.
  17. ^ "Barbara Smoyer Park".

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