Cornell University Athletics

At Cornell, "Win" Osgood received a medal as the school's best all-around athlete. He ran the 440 and threw shot put for the track team, was an accomplished gymnast, boxer, wrestler and tennis player who also set a collegiate record of 5:28 for the 2-mile bicycle race. Osgood played halfback for four years for the football team (1888-89 and 1891-92) with the team posting a 28-8 record. He was considered one of the top players in the early years of Cornell football, earning a spot on the first ever all-time Cornell football team put together in the Cornell Daily Sun in 1927. In rowing, Osgood won the single scull championship at Cornell in 1892. He left Cornell in the fall of 1892 to attend the University of Pennsylvania and became the first collegiate wrestler to win an AAU national wrestling championship as a post-grad student in 1895. An elusive runner, William "Pudge" Heffelfinger, a three-time All-American under Walter Camp at Yale and the first-ever professional football player, said of Osgood "It was downright uncanny to watch him run, opponents missed him by inches. His body undulated like a snake's. He was the Red Grange of the Pioneer era." He was inducted into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1970.