20 Facts About Eugene Messler

Eugene Lawrence Messler was an American football player and coach and businessman.

Eugene Messler played at the tackle position for Yale's 1891,1892, and 1893 championship teams, coached the 1894 Centre football team, and played on the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club professional football teams from 1895 to 1897.

Eugene Messler was the general superintendent of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company's Pittsburgh coke ovens and blast furnaces from approximately 1899 to 1911 and the president of the Eureka Fire Brick Company for many years commencing in 1907.

Eugene Messler was educated in the Allegheny schools and later at the Shady Side Academy.

Eugene Messler played college football on Yale's freshman and varsity football team in 1891.

Eugene Messler played at the tackle position under Yale's head coach Walter Camp and was a member of Camp's undefeated 1892 Yale team.

Eugene Messler served as the head football coach at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1894.

Eugene Messler was a player for the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, an early professional football team, from 1895 to 1897.

In May 1895, Eugene Messler served as engineer overseeing the construction of the Duquesne blast furnaces and later became the general superintendent of labor.

Eugene Messler favored an induced draft that could vary the pressure in furnaces so they would not have to depend entirely on a stack, noting that excessive temperatures were an unnecessary test on the brick linings.

Eugene Messler served as president of the Eureka Fire Brick Company for many years commencing in 1907.

Eugene Messler served as the director of the Fisher Scientific Company and the Scientific Materials Company.

Eugene Messler was a member of several societies, including the National Geographic Society, the Engineer's Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.

Eugene Messler was an avid big-game hunter and was an amateur tennis player.

Eugene Messler served in the United States Army during World War I, after being commissioned captain of engineers on May 20,1918.

Eugene Messler served in France with the American Expeditionary Forces and attaining the rank of major in the Army reserves.

Eugene Messler received the Victory Medal with two battle clasps for his service.

Eugene Messler remained active in Army reserve organizations, retiring as a colonel in 1947.

Eugene Messler was the victim of a hit-and-run driver in approximately 1945, which significantly impacted his health.

Eugene Messler died in 1950 at age 76 at Pittsburgh's West Penn Hospital.