Roscoe Channing

Roscoe Channing

200px Portrait of R.S. Channing from Walter Camp's 1894 book American Football
Princeton Tigers
Position	Halfback
Class	Graduate
Career history
College	Princeton (1889)
Personal information
Date of birth	January 7, 1868
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death
Place of death	Tucson, Arizona
Weight
Career highlights and awards
All-American (1889)

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. 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. Channing later went into the mining business and managed the mining operations of the Whitney family. In the 1920s, he formed a partnership with his friend Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. The two formed the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company in Flin Flon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Channing served as the company's President. Channing died in 1961.