Caspar Whitney (2 Sept 1864- 18 Jan 1929)^[1] was an American author, editor, explorer and war correspondent^[2]. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine.

From 1900 he was editor-in-chief of the monthly The Outing Magazine which promoted the outdoors and sporting pursuits, as well as a good deal of adventure fiction; authors included Jack London and Clarence E. Mulford. He was a founding member of The Explorers Club (1904) after expeditions in North and South America. He declared bankruptcy in 1910.

As a sports journalist he was an advocate of athletic amateurism and was a member of the International Olympic Committee (1900-1905) and the American Olympic Committee (President 1906-1910 ). He wrote on a wide range of subjects including big-game hunting, inter collegiate sporting contests (especially football and baseball), amateur versus professional contests, and the Olympic games.^[3] In the early 1900s, he edited "The American Sportsman's Library," a quality series of 16 volumes.

Whitney testified in a lawsuit against him for that he earned a salary of $8,000 (nearly $200,000 inflation adjusted to 2008) for editing Outing Magazine and $1,500 (about $35,000 inflation adjusted) for editing the American Sportsman's Library ^[4].

[edit] Books

• Sporting Pilgimage (1895)
• On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds (1896)
• Hawaiian America (1899)
• Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat (1904) (with George Bird Grinnell and Owen Wister)
• Jungle Trails and Jungle People (1905)
• Flowing Road (1912)
• What's the Matter with Mexico? (1916)
• Gott mit Uns - the Boche Delusion (1918)
• Hunt Clubs and Country Clubs in America (1928)
• Charles Adelbert Canfield (1930)

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Dillon Wallace Papers
• Edgar Rice Burroughs Library
• Explorer's Club History

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