Wednesday, August 14, 1929 



WINTHROP SCUDDER 

 DIES IN NEW YORK 



Art Editor Played on Ameri- 

 ca's First Football Team. \ 



. ISnccial Dispatch to Tht Hfrnld] 



NEW YORK, Aug. 14— Wlnthi-op 

 Saltonstall Scudder, art editor and an i 

 an original member or America's first 

 football club, died ol pneuonia today 

 at his home. 142 East Seventy-First 

 itrect. He was 83 years old. 



He c?me to New York from his home 

 In Cambridge two years ago to be near 

 his son, Theodore Townscnd Scudder, 

 head of the firm of Scudder, Stvens & 

 Clark. Ill Broadway. In 1926 he 

 ■wi'ote a historical sketch of the Oneida 

 Football Club of Boston, which played 

 the game on the Boston Common In 

 1862, 13 years before the first game 

 between Harvard and Yale. Not only 

 was the club never beaten, but its goal 

 line was never crossed. 



Mr. Scudder was a graduate of Har- 

 Tard in 1870. He attended his 59th 

 cla^s reunion this year. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Union Club of Boston, of 

 which his father. Charles William 

 Scudder. was one of the founders. He 

 was also a member of the Harvard 

 Club of Boston and the Harvard Club 

 ©I New York. 



For 40 years Mr. Scudder was art ed- 

 itor of Houghton Mifflin Company, He 

 wa.s retired for the past 10 years. Be- 

 lildes hi.'! son, he leaves a widow, Mrs. 

 eanette Markham Scudder. Burial will 

 be in Cambridge. 



