Charles Nourse

Charles Joseph Nourse (February 24, 1888 – April 25, 1974) was an American football player and lawyer. He played college football at Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-America Team. Early life Nourse was born in 1888, a son of Charles J. Nourse of New York. He attended preparatory school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. College football career As an undergraduate, Nourse studied law at Harvard College from 1905 to 1909. He was six feet tall and weighed 197 pounds while at Harvard. He played on the freshman football team in 1906 and on the Harvard Crimson football team in 1907 and 1908. After the 1908 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team center on the 1908 College Football All-America Team. Career After receiving his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1909, Nourse spent three years at Columbia Law School]. He was editor of the Columbia Law Review and graduated in 1912. After his admission to the bar, Nourse, practiced law, initially with the law with the firm of Winthrop & Stimson in New York City, and later with the firm of Prince & Burlingame.