14 Facts About Dudley Dean

Dudley Stuart Dean was an All-American football quarterback for Harvard University.

Dudley Dean played quarterback for Harvard from 1888 to 1890 and was selected as an All-American in 1890.

Yale had the ball at midfield when Dudley Dean broke through past Hall of Famer Pudge Heffelfinger and batted the ball out of the hands of the Yale quarterback.

Dudley Dean played shortstop and second base for the Harvard baseball team and was captain of that team in 1891.

In July 1898, after the Battle of San Juan Hill, Dudley Dean was one of five members of the regiment mentioned by Theodore Roosevelt for bravery on the battlefield.

Roosevelt organized his regiment of Rough Riders, Mr Dudley Dean was one of the first to enlist.

Dudley Dean served throughout the campaign with distinction, and was in the thin brown line that charged up San Juan Hill.

On that occasion Dudley Dean ran through the entire Yale team for ninety yards and scored a goal.

Dudley Dean was a reporter and columnist for the New York World and Boston Globe for a time.

Dudley Dean was involved for most of his professional career in the mining business, and the companies with which he was associated had extensive land, lumber and mineral holdings in the Gogebic Range of northern Michigan.

Dudley Dean was affiliated with the Keweenaw Land Association, Ltd.

In 1920, Dudley Dean was the treasurer of the Keweenaw Land Association, at which time the company owned 400,000 acres of timber and mineral lands in the copper belt of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Dudley Dean was the treasurer of the Newport Land Company.

In 1922, Dudley Dean led an unsuccessful campaign to have Kennedy admitted to the Cohasset Golf Club, and several of his letters lobbying for Kennedy's admission were published in the book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.