Background
Carpell was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1889, the son of Maximillian A. and Elizabeth (Heydrich) Carpell.
Carpell was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1889, the son of Maximillian A. and Elizabeth (Heydrich) Carpell.
University of Michigan.
He played halfback for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909 to 1912. He became an aviation combat pilot during World War I and was one of four Michigan football players to be killed in the war. Carpell enrolled at the University of Michigan and played for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909 to 1912 under head coach Fielding H. Yost.
After graduating from Michigan, Carpell went into the real estate brokerage business in Detroit with an office in the Penobscot Building.
In 1913, he served as the head football coach at Albion College. He led the Albion Britons to a record of 2-3-2 in his one season as head coach.
Following the United States entry into World War I, Carpell was inducted into the United States. Army on December 1, 1917. He was assigned to the Pilot Aviation Section and transferred to Berkeley, California, and then Dallas, Texas for training.
On January 1, 1918, he announced his engagement to Beatrice Merriam of Detroit.
In October 1918, he died of a cause variously reported as heart failure or pneumonia following an outbreak of Spanish influenza while serving at Payne Field in West Point, Mississippi. In November 1921, a bronze memorial tablet was unveiled at Michigan"s football stadium to honor Carpell and three other Michigan football players who died while serving in World War I. The others included Curtis Redden and Efton James.