Background
Tibbott was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1885, and moved with his family to Philadelphia in 1901.
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Frederick Tibbott
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He attended the Germantown Academy where he was a member of the football, baseball and track teams.
Career
He played college football while attending Princeton University and was a consensus selection at the halfback position on the 1908 College Football All-America Team. He played halfback for the Princeton Tigers football team in 1907 and 1908. In October 1907, he ran 100 yards for a touchdown against Bucknell.
In November 1907, Tibbott scored a touchdown and helped Princeton defeat the Carlisle Indians team starring Jim Thorpe by a 16-0 score.
One newspaper wrote of Tibbott"s performance against Carlisle: "Tibbott was the slim, wiry Tiger who did most of this work. He played superb foot ball for Princeton on the offense and was a man of might out of all proportion to his bounds."
In 1908, Tibbott was selected as a consensus first-team All-American.
He did not receive a degree from Princeton, reportedly due to "trouble with his eyes in senior year."
He left Princeton in December 1908 and worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Panama Mining Company in Nicaragua, the United States Forestry Service in Colorado, the Norfolk & Portsmouth Traction Company, the Virginia Railway & Power Company, and the Emerson Piano Company in Boston. After the war, Tibbott moved to Chesterville, Maine, and pursued a career in writing.
His work, "Simon Hastings: A Novel Of Maine"s North Country" was published in 1942.
He also had short stories published in the Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. He died in 1965 at age 79.
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