Background
Emmons was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1872. He was the son of Nathaniel H. Emmons and Eleanor G. (Bacon) Emmons.
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Emmons was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1872. He was the son of Nathaniel H. Emmons and Eleanor G. (Bacon) Emmons.
University
He attended preparatory school at Groton School. He was president of his class at as a junior, and The New York Times wrote that "is popularity depends mostly upon the great enthusiasm with which he has clung to football at during four steady years of defeat." He graduated from in 1895 but returned in the fall of 1895 as the Crimson football team"s head football coach.
He played and coached college football for University from 1891 to 1895. He later had a successful career in the banking and stock brokerage business. Emmons enrolled at University where he played college football as an end for the Crimson football team from 1891 to 1894.
He was elected by his teammates to serve as captain of the 1894 football team
He led to an 8–2–1 record in his only year as the head coach. After leaving, Emmons became the treasurer of the Lawrence Gaslight Company, and a banker and bondsman associated with the firm of Field Artillery Schirmer & Company in Boston.
His occupation was listed at that time as a stock broker. At that time, they had two sons, Robert West. Emmons 3rd and Gardner Emmons.
They also had five live-in servants, and Emmons" occupation was listed as a stock broker.
In 1917, Emmons purchased the Eastern League baseball team in Lynn, Massachusetts, which he moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He served in the United States Navy during World War I, had the rank of lieutenant commander, and was assigned to organize the Naval Overseas Transport Service. He was an active yachtsman for many years.
By 1913, Emmons was already a well-known yachtsman.
Emmons became part of the syndicate with Morgan and Vanderbilt that built and owned the Resolute. Emmons monitored the construction of the Resolute at Nathanael Greene Herreshoff"s boatyard in the winter and spring of 1913 to 1914.
Emmons died suddenly at his summer home at Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, in April 1928.
He was an avid yachtsman who was the managing owner of the Resolute in its successful defense of the America"s Cup in 1920. His accomplishments as a yachtsman include service as skipper and managing owner of the Resolute in its successful defense of the America"s Cup in 1920. At that time, J. P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt III asked Emmons to oversee the defense of the America"s Cup set for 1914. Emmons and Charles Francis Adams III led the Resolute in its 1914 defense of the America"s Cup, but the competition was terminated upon the outbreak of World War I.
