Fred Stevenson Norcross, Jr. UMI quarterback (1905)

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	Fred Stevenson Norcross (1905)    born: 14 Jul 1884, Michigan    died: April 1965    photo: Bently Historical Library, UMI Athletics History
	UMI Wolverines (1903 squad)    1903 National Champions    Left end/left halfback: Fred S. Norcross    photo: Bently Image Bank, UMI Athletics History
	UMI Wolverines (1904 squad)    1904 National Champions    Quarterback: Fred S. Norcross    photo: Bently Image Bank, UMI Athletics History
	UMI Wolverines (1905 squad)    1905 Conference 2nd Place tie    Quarterback: Fred S. Norcross    photo: Bently Image Bank, UMI Athletics History
	Fred S. Norcross Passport Photo (18 May 1921)    destinations: Republic of Panama, Republic of Nicaragua    Aboard: Calamares 21 May 1921 out of NYC    photo: Ancestry.com

• First Football Film: Michigan vs. Chicago, 1904 (real audio).
• Luse Photograph Album: "F.S. Norcross-'Norky' of ‘Green Bunch' fame, 1908" p.24 (OSU archives).
• FSN III: McGee Cem., Stratford, Garvin Co. OK.
• FSN III in-laws: McGee Cem., Stratford, Garvin Co. OK.
• Roberta "Rob" (Norcross) McKelvy: Roswell Daily Record.
• Fred S. Norcross: 1930 Census, Plandome, Nassau, NY ED#154 p3A T626_1461 (Ancestry.com)
• FSN Sr.: 1920 Census, Menominee, MI ED#273 p3B T625_785 (Ancestry.com)
• FSN Sr.: 1880 Census, Lansing, MI ED#129 p357D T9_583 (Ancestry.com)
• FSN Sr.: 1870 Census, Charleston, Penobscot, ME p352 M593_553 (Ancestry.com)
• Jackman-Evans wedding 09 DEC 1880. (parents of Mrs. FSN, Jr; formerly Mrs. Frank C. Lloyd)
• Fred S Norcross: Passport Application 18 May 1921 (ancestry.com)
• History of the 27th Engineers, U.S.A., 1917-1919 (googlebooks)
• Elizabeth J. Norcross: b. 28 May 1893 d. Palm Beach 13 Jan 1973 : (ancestry.com)

UMI Football rosters:

Edmonston, George, Jr. "Part 1 of 10: The Wall," in OSU Sports History Minute. Eclipse: a News Service of the OSU Alumnae Association, (15 Sept 2000)." <http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/eclips/history/footballhistory01.html> [28 Oct 2003]

During the past 100 years of Beaver football, there have been many great defenses to wear the Orange and Black...the 1933 Iron Men, the 1942 Rose Bowl champions, the Giant Killers of 1967, the defense that stopped the Huskies 21-20 in 1985...the list is long and distinguished.

But which was the greatest of all?

According to the OSU Football Media Guide prepared by OSU’s Sports Information Department, the greatest defensive performance of all time at Oregon State was turned in at the beginning of the last century.

From 1906-1908, the defensive units of coach F[red].S[tevenson]. Norcross yielded but four points in 72 quarters! Let’s do the math on this together. That’s about 18 games in which the total points scored against the Beavers was less than that of a single touchdown.

The 1907 team practices a formation while Coach Norcross watches from the rear. Picture from The Orange, 1909.

This remarkable achievement was highlighted by the 1907 season in which the Beavers finished the campaign undefeated, untied and without giving up a single point...the almost mythical “pristine” season. This remains the only perfect season in OSU football history.

The only points scored against Oregon Agricultural College, the name of the school at the time, came in the last game of the 1906 season against Willamette University in Salem.

With 17 minutes gone in the first half, WU’s Curtis Coleman kicked a drop kick from OAC’s 23-yard line and scored a field goal, worth four-points under turn-of-the-century football rules. Coleman was the son of WU President John H. Coleman.

Afterwards, even in defeat, the entire student body from Corvallis marched lock-arm and lock-step down the streets of downtown Salem singing Oregon State fight songs.

Fred Stevenson Norcross had arrived in Corvallis in the late summer of 1906 to coach the football team, OAC’s third-choice in a job hunt that had begun in April of that year.

It proved to be one of the best hires in Oregon State history.

Norcross won 14 games over a three-year period, losing only four games and tying three.

His 1907 squad won the championship of the Western United States.

He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and had played quarterback for Fielding Yost’s “Point-a-Minute” squads of the early 1900s.

--George Edmonston, Jr.

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/chronology/chron_1900.html

OAC Barometer "Football Number" commemorating the football team's undefeated season, 1907. Coached by F. S. Norcross, a former University of Michigan quarterback, the 1907 football squad was never scored upon the entire season and compiled a 6-0 record. They won the Pacific Coast championship by defeating St. Vincent College of Los Angeles, 10-0. (St. Vincent is now known as Loyola Marymount University.) [OSU Archives MC-Barometer.]

http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/pac10/oregon_state/yearly_results.php?year=1906

1906:  4-1-2 Coach: Fred S. Norcross W/L Date PF Opponent PA Location Notes W 1906 24 Albany AC (OR) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1906 16 Oregon St. Alumni 0 Corvallis, OR T 10-27-1906 0 Washington 0 Seattle, WA W 1906 28 Pacific (OR) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1906 9 Columbia AC 0 Corvallis, OR T 11-24-1906 0 Oregon 0 Corvallis, OR L 1906 0 Willamette (OR) 4 Salem, OR 77 Season Totals 4 1907:  6-0-0 Coach: Fred S. Norcross W/L Date PF Opponent PA Location Notes W 1907 26 Astoria AC (OR) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1907 6 Whitman (WA) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1907 49 Pacific (OR) 0 Corvallis, OR W 11-09-1907 4 Oregon 0 Eugene, OR W 1907 42 Willamette (OR) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1907 10 Loyola Marymount (CA) 0 Los Angeles, CA 137 Season Totals 0 1908:  4-3-1 Coach: Fred S. Norcross W/L Date PF Opponent PA Location Notes T 1908 0 Oregon St. Alumni 0 Corvallis, OR W 1908 26 Puget Sound (WA) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1908 10 Columbia AC 0 Corvallis, OR W 1908 28 Willamette (OR) 0 Corvallis, OR W 1908 9 Whitman (WA) 0 Corvallis, OR L 11-21-1908 0 Oregon 8 Portland, OR L 11-28-1908 0 Washington 32 Seattle, WA L 1908 10 Multnomah AC (OR) 11 Portland, OR 83 Season Totals 51

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Divorce records, 1881-1968 Menominee County (Michigan). FHL US/CAN Film #1017374. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977. P 24. Microfilm of original volume A at the Menominee County Courthouse, Menominee, Michigan.