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Clarence Childs and Fremont Football Club Photographs

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Title	Clarence Childs and Fremont Football Club Photographs
Subject	Sports Football Athletes Sports teams Musicians Football players
Place	Fremont (Ohio) Sandusky County (Ohio) Wooster (Ohio) Wayne County (Ohio)
Description	These two prints document the Fremont Football Club in 1897. Olympic athlete Clarence Childs was captain of the team. The first 3.25" x 6.75" (8.26 x 17.15 cm) photograph shows Childs in his football uniform. The full team is shown in a second, 7" x 9.75" (17.78 x 24.77 cm) group photograph. Clarence Childs (1881-1960) was born in Wooster, Ohio, but moved to Fremont after the death of his mother in 1893. He played on the high school football team in 1896 and served as the captain of the Fremont Football Club in 1897. Before finishing high school, Childs joined the army and was mustered in to the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) on April 25, 1898 as a musician. While in Europe with an All-American concert band at the Paris Exposition, he heard an all slide-reed instrument band. On his return, Childs organized a similar band known as the "C.C.C Slides." The band received national attention. In 1906, Childs attended Kenyon College, where he played on the football and track teams and was a member of both the glee and mandolin clubs. He transferred to Yale in his senior year and entered law school. In 1913 Childs was a member of the United States Olympic track and field team. He placed third at the games in Stockholm, Sweden. After returning to Fremont to marry Zella Sherrard, Childs became the athletic director at Wooster College and in 1914 he coached football and track at Indiana University. His assistant coach at Indiana was Jim Thorpe, a friend from the Olympic games. Childs later served in World War I and was promoted to major. He later served in the Harding administration.
Date of Original	1897
Collection	Clarence Childs Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om624_1148748_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om624_1148748_001.tif
Image Height	2036
Image Width	825
File Size	589.501 KB

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