Lynn Sweet | |
Birth Date: | 22 October 1881 |
Death Place: | Buffalo, New York |
Position1: | Center, Tackle |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 7 |
Weight Lb: | 172 |
College: | Bucknell, Penn State |
Playing Years1: | 1902 |
Playing Team1: | Philadelphia Athletics |
Playing Years2: | 1903 |
Playing Team2: | Franklin Athletic Club |
Playing Years3: | 1905 |
Playing Team3: | Canton Athletic Club |
Playing Years4: | 1906 |
Playing Team4: | Canton Bulldogs |
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Lynn D. (Pop) Sweet (October 22, 1881 – October 21, 1918) was a professional American football player who played with the Philadelphia Athletics in the first National Football League and for the 1903 US Football Champions, the Franklin Athletic Club. Sweet also won, with Franklin, the 1903 World Series of Football, held that December at Madison Square Garden.
Prior to his professional career, he played at the college level. For 3 seasons he played for the Bucknell Bison and then spent his last season of college football with the Penn State Nittany Lions. He died in 1918.[1]