Roscoe Channing

{{Short description|American football player (1868–1961)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college football player

|image=Roscoe Channing.jpg

|birth_date=January 7, 1868

|birth_place=New York City, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1961|4|1|1868|1|7}}

|death_place=Tucson, Arizona, U.S.

|currentposition=Halfback

|pastschools=Princeton (1889)

|highlights=

• Consensus All-American (1889)

|school=Princeton Tigers

|class=Graduate

|weight_lb=141

|CollegeHOF=

}}

Roscoe H. Channing, Jr. (January 7, 1868 – April 1, 1961) was an All-American football player, member of the Rough Riders and mining executive. Channing was an All-American halfback for Princeton University. He was one of eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney for the first ever College Football All-America Team in 1889.The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4844195/Awards-compiled-NCAA-2008-Record-Book-Division-1-Football NCAA guide to football award winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714223946/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4844195/Awards-compiled-NCAA-2008-Record-Book-Division-1-Football |date=2009-07-14 }} When the Spanish–American War commenced in 1898, Channing enlisted in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Roosevelt took pride in how many Ivy League football players enlisted in the Rough Riders.{{cite book|author=Mark Bernstein|title=Football: The Ivy League origins of an American obsession, p. 64|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=2001|isbn=0-8122-3627-0}}{{cite book|author=Edward Marshall|title=The Story of the Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry; The Regiment in Camp and on the Battle Field|publisher=Q. W. Dillingham Co. |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/stream/storyofroughride01mars/storyofroughride01mars_djvu.txt}} Channing later went into the mining business and managed the mining operations of the Whitney family.{{cite web|title=Mining Impact in Saskatchewan (Timeline)|publisher=Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre|url=http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/ethnography/dene/resources/mining.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611035527/http://www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/ethnography/dene/resources/mining.html|archivedate=2011-06-11}} In the 1920s, he formed a partnership with his friend Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.{{cite magazine|author=Alfred Wright|title=Sonny Whitney: A Success In Spite Of His Money|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=1961-09-04|url= https://vault.si.com/vault/1961/09/04/sonny-whitney-a-success-in-spite-of-his-money/|archive-url= https://archive.today/20121203003331/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1072955/index.htm|url-status= live|archive-date= December 3, 2012}} The two formed the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company in Flin Flon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Channing served as the company's President.{{cite news|title=Roscoe Channing Dead: Ex-President of Hudson Bay Mining Co. in Canada, 93|work=The New York Times|date=1961-04-04}} Channing died in 1961.