Jack Owsley


John Ebsworth Jack Owsley was an American football player and coach and businessman. He played college football, principally as a left halfback, for Yale University from 1901 to 1904. He was the head coach of Yales undefeated 1905 football team that outscored opponents 226 to 4. He also served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1925. He gained a reputation as a wartime producer of armaments, working with MarlinRockwell Corporation during World War I and with the High Standard Manufacturing Company during World War II. He was one of the highest paid persons in the United States in 1941 and 1942.

Owsley was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1883. His father was Heaton Owsley , an Illinois native and manufacturer. His mother, Harriet Owsley was a Mississippi native who died in the same year that Owsley was born. He was the nephew of Carter Harrison, Jr., the mayor of Chicago from 1897 to 1905. Owsley attended preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in Andover, New Hampshire, graduating in 1902.

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