1. Boss Weeks played quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1902 and served as head football coach at the University of Kansas in 1903 and at Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1904.
13 Facts About Boss Weeks
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Boss Weeks was born in Fort McIntosh, Texas, where his father, a West Point graduate and career military officer originally from Allegan, Michigan, was stationed at the time.
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Boss Weeks's parents met while his father was stationed at Fort Union, New Mexico, as his mother's family was from nearby rural Mora County, New Mexico.
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Boss Weeks spent his early childhood growing up on military posts in New Mexico and Texas, where his father was stationed until the family finally moved back to his father's native Allegan, Michigan in 1888.
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Boss Weeks was the fourth-oldest of eight brothers, five of whom played football for the University of Michigan, and one sister.
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Three of the brothers earned varsity letters in football, and the oldest of those three brothers, Alanson Boss Weeks, played halfback for the 1898 Michigan team that won the school's first Western Conference championship.
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Boss Weeks enrolled at Michigan in 1899 and played on the school's "scrub team" as a freshman.
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Boss Weeks started all 11 games at quarterback for the 1901 Michigan Wolverines and had tremendous success with Yost's new system.
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Boss Weeks drove two Michigan teams to a total of 1,211 points against 12.
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Boss Weeks coached only one year at Kansas, earning a salary of $1,200.
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Boss Weeks worked for a time for a large construction company.
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In late 1905 or early 1906, Boss Weeks contracted either diphtheria or typhoid fever, was ill for several weeks, and spent a month in hospital in a Washington, DC He died at the hospital on February 25,1906, at age 26.
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Every man that played under Boss Weeks idolized him, and when word was brought to the university that he had died, every Michigan man felt that its university had lost one of its greatest men.