Edward Dillon

Edward Aloysius Dillon (November 1, 1882 – January 30, 1935) was an American football player and coach as well as a judge. He was the quarterback of the Princeton Tigers football team for four years from 1905 to 1908 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1906 and 1907. He served as a state court judge in New Jersey from 1922 until the time of his death in 1935. Biography Early years Dillon was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1882. He was the son of Edward Dillon, who was considered "one of the best printers in New England," and Mary Ann Beasley. His father was born in England to Irish parents and his mother was born in Ireland. Dillon attended Phillips-Andover Academy before enrolling at Princeton University. Princeton At Princeton, Dillon was the quarterback for the university's football teams from 1905 to 1908. He also played center field and second base for Princeton's baseball team, returned punts and kickoffs for the football team, and was the first Princeton quarterback to make use of the forward pass. Sports columnist Lawrence Perry later wrote that Dillon was "as intrepid a ball carrier, as game a defensive back as ever wore orange and black stripes." Perry described Dillon as follows:"Eddie Dillon was an Irish boy from Massachusetts, resilient as a Damascus blade, the temper of which he approximated physically and mentally. He had clear gray eyes, a lean square jaw and a will of his own. His pride was the pride of a boy sensitive to the last degree."