Howard Boogher

Howard Boogher
Born(1876-01-02)January 2, 1876
DiedMarch, 1933
College football career
Vanderbilt Commodores
PositionEnd
Class1898
MajorLaw
Career history
CollegeVanderbilt (1897)
Career highlights and awards
  • SIAA championship (1897)
  • 1912 All-time Vandy team

Howard Murray Boogher (January 2, 1876 – March, 1933) was a college football player, attorney, and once president of the Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Company.[1][2] Boogher was captain of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion 1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team. He and Phil Connell dove to recover the ball after the victory in the school's rivalry game with Sewanee in 1897.[3]

  1. ^ Stevens, Walter Barlow (1909). "St. Louis, the Fourth City, 1764-1909".
  2. ^ Leonard, John W. (1906). The Book of St. Louisans.
  3. ^ Bill Traughber (September 14, 2011). "Vandy Students' 1897 cheer banned".