Norman W. Cabot was an All-American football player. A native of New York, New York, Cabot was the son of a prominent Brooklyn family said to be "one of the bluest-blooded, old Puritan families of New York," and a descendent of explorer John Cabot

John Cabot

John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings in the eleventh century...

. He played for Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 from 1894 to 1897 and was selected as one of the ends on the 1895 College Football All-America Team

1895 College Football All-America Team

The 1895 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation...

. He was elected captain of the 1897 Harvard football team. Cabot was also a prominent tennis and squash player.