Foster Haven Rockwell was an All-American football player and hotelier. A native of Vermont

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Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

, Rockwell played football at Yale University

Yale University

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 and was selected as the quarterback

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 on the 1902 College Football All-America Team

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 and was a member of Skull and Bones

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. He later served the head football coach at Yale in 1906, leading the team to a national championship. He also coached football at the United States Naval Academy

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. In 1911, Rockwell moved to Arizona

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 where he owned and operated the Hotel Adams in Phoenix

Phoenix, Arizona

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for more than 20 years. He was also the founder of the Arizona Hotel Association. Rockwell died in Phoenix at age 61 in 1942.