John Ebsworth Owsley was an American football player and coach and businessman.
34 Facts About Jack Owsley
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Jack Owsley played college football, principally as a left halfback, for Yale University from 1901 to 1904.
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Jack Owsley was the head coach of Yale's undefeated 1905 football team that outscored opponents 226 to 4.
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Jack Owsley served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1925.
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Jack Owsley gained a reputation as a wartime producer of armaments, working with Marlin-Rockwell Corporation during World War I and with the High Standard Manufacturing Company during World War II.
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Jack Owsley was one of the highest paid persons in the United States in 1941 and 1942.
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Jack Owsley's father was Heaton Owsley, an Illinois native and manufacturer.
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Jack Owsley's mother, Harriet Owsley was a Mississippi native who died in the same year that Owsley was born.
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Jack Owsley attended preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in Andover, New Hampshire, graduating in 1902.
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Jack Owsley enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1901 at age 18.
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Jack Owsley played for the Yale Bulldogs football team in 1901,1903, and 1904.
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Jack Owsley returned to Yale in the fall of 1905 as the head coach of the school's varsity football team.
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The 1905 team coached by Jack Owsley has been recognized as that year's national championship team by Parke-Davis and Caspar Whitney.
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In 1905, Jack Owsley was one of the advisers with whom President Theodore Roosevelt consulted concerning his campaign to reduce the level of violence and reform the game of football.
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Jack Owsley served as an assistant coach and coach of the "scrub" team at Yale for several years thereafter.
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Jack Owsley returned to Yale as backfield coach under head coach Tad Jones during the 1923 and 1924 football seasons.
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In December 1924, Jack Owsley traveled to Annapolis, Maryland, and was interviewed to become the head football coach at United States Naval Academy.
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Jack Owsley was hired by Navy in January 1925, and became the 18th head coach for the Navy Midshipmen football team.
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Jack Owsley remained in Seattle until the fall of 1908.
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Jack Owsley returned to Connecticut in November 1908 to help the Yale football team prepare for its game against Princeton.
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Jack Owsley married Helen Blanche Hall in November 1908 at New Haven, Connecticut.
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Jack Owsley and his wife had two daughters, Julia, born November 27,1913, and Helen, born August 18,1920.
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From 1908 until at least 1910, Jack Owsley continued to work in the logging business, buying and selling lumber for people in the East.
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Jack Owsley lived in Seattle and made occasional short trips to the East.
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In December 1915, Jack Owsley became employed by Marlin-Rockwell Corporation, the largest producers of machine guns in the world.
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On January 7,1918, the company sent a letter in support of a passport application to allow Jack Owsley, then holding the position of assistant general manager, to travel to France to investigate the use of machine guns in aircraft.
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Jack Owsley returned from Europe on September 30,1918, as a passenger of the SS Adriatic.
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At the time of the 1920 United States Census, Owsley was living in New Haven, Connecticut, with his mother-in-law Julia W Hall, his wife Helen H Owsley, a daughter Julia Hall Owsley, and four live-in servants.
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Jack Owsley's occupation was listed at that time as the manager of an oil field.
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At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Owsley was living in New Haven, Connecticut, with his mother-in-law Julia W Hall, his wife Helen H Owsley, two daughters, Julia and Helen, and five live-in servants.
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Jack Owsley's occupation was listed at that time as a lumber dealer.
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Owsley had developed a reputation as "a wartime production authority in New England" based on his service with Marlin-Rockwell during World War I In 1940, Owsley helped organize High Standard Manufacturing Company, an armaments company based in New Haven, Connecticut.
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In 1941 and 1942, Jack Owsley was included on a list compiled by the Treasury Department of the top salary earners in the United States.
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Jack Owsley served as High Standard's vice president until 1945, continuing thereafter as a director until his retirement in approximately 1948.