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'''Arthur Bluethenthal''', nicknamed "'''Bluey'''" (November 1, 1891, in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] &ndash; June 5, 1918), was an [[All American]] football player for Princeton University who died in combat for France in World War I.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA306&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false |title=Day by day in Jewish sports history |publisher=KTAV Publishing House2008|date= |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>
'''Arthur Bluethenthal''', nicknamed "'''Bluey'''" (November 1, 1891, in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] &ndash; June 5, 1918), was an [[All American]] football player for Princeton University who died in combat for France in World War I.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA306&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false|author=Bob Wechsler |title=Day by day in Jewish sports history |publisher=KTAV Publishing House|date=2008 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
The son of Leopold and Johanna Bluethenthal, he attended [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] prior to attending [[Princeton University]], from which he graduated in 1913.<ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nod9V6pAMkIC&pg=PA101&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false |title=Memorial volume of the American field service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917
The son of Leopold and Johanna Bluethenthal, he attended [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] prior to attending [[Princeton University]], from which he graduated in 1913.<ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nod9V6pAMkIC&pg=PA101&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false|author= James William Davenport Seymour|title=Memorial volume of the American field service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917
|publisher=American field service |date=1921 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>
|publisher=American field service |date=1921 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>


==Football career==
==Football career==
At Princeton University the 5' 9", 186-pound Bluethenthal played center from 1910–12. In 1911, he was named first team All-America by a number of newspapers, [[Walter Camp]] second team All-America, and first team All-East in a consensus of 28 newspapers. That year, the Tigers were 8–0–2, and yielded only 15 points the entire year. In 1912, Walter Camp selected him as third team All-America. Bluethenthal is a member of the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref name="jewsinsports1">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=17 |title=Bluethenthal, Arthur "Bluey" |publisher=Jewsinsports.org |date= |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oZxnNt28DhcC&pg=PA87&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false |title=Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame |publisher=Brassey's|date=2000 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>
At Princeton University the 5' 9", 186-pound Bluethenthal played center from 1910–12. In 1911, he was named first team All-America by a number of newspapers, [[Walter Camp]] second team All-America, and first team All-East in a consensus of 28 newspapers. That year, the Tigers were 8–0–2, and yielded only 15 points the entire year. In 1912, Walter Camp selected him as third team All-America. Bluethenthal is a member of the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref name="jewsinsports1">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=17 |title=Bluethenthal, Arthur "Bluey" |publisher=Jewsinsports.org |date= |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oZxnNt28DhcC&pg=PA87&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false|author=Joseph Siegman |title=Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame |publisher=Brassey's|date=2000 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>


==Coaching career==
==Coaching career==
After he graduated in 1912, Bluethenthal became the line coach for the Princeton Tigers, and then for the [[University of North Carolina]].<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1">{{cite web|url=http://www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com/article.asp?aid=461&iid=62&sud=27 |title=Home of Distinction: Family Treasure |publisher=Wrightsville Beach Magazine |date=January 2009 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20F14F93B5813738DDDAC0994DC405B838DF1D3 |title=TIGER FOOTBALL COACHES - Princeton Selects Bluethenthal and Andrews to Drill Eleven |publisher=The New York Times |date=April 15, 1913 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="google2"/>
After he graduated in 1912, Bluethenthal became the line coach for the Princeton Tigers, and then for the [[University of North Carolina]].<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1">{{cite web|url=http://www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com/article.asp?aid=461&iid=62&sud=27 |author=Marimar McNaughton|title=Home of Distinction: Family Treasure |publisher=Wrightsville Beach Magazine |date=January 2009 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20F14F93B5813738DDDAC0994DC405B838DF1D3 |title=Tiger Football Coaches-Princeton Selects Bluethenthal and Andrews to Drill Eleven |publisher=The New York Times |date=April 15, 1913 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="google2"/>


==World War I==
==World War I==
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In 1916, a year before the United States entered World War I, he joined the [[French Foreign Legion]] and served at the [[Battle of Verdun]] with the French 129th Infantry Division. France awarded him the ''[[Croix de Guerre]]'' with Star for conspicuous bravery.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="google2"/><ref name="google1"/>
In 1916, a year before the United States entered World War I, he joined the [[French Foreign Legion]] and served at the [[Battle of Verdun]] with the French 129th Infantry Division. France awarded him the ''[[Croix de Guerre]]'' with Star for conspicuous bravery.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="google2"/><ref name="google1"/>


On June 1, 1917, he joined the French flying corps, flying a single engine [[Breguet Aviation|Breguet]] bomber in the [[Lafayette Escadrille|Escadrille]] Breguet 227 of the [[Lafayette Flying Corps]], as the only American in the squadron.<ref name="google2"/><ref name="google1"/><ref name="google3">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zrpb67qFXUIC&pg=PT236&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false |title=First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation |publisher=UNC Press Books |date= 2003|accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/collateral/articles/f03.flying.unfriendly.skies.pdf "Flying the Unfriendly Skies: North Carolinians in the Two World Wars"], ''Tar Heel Junior Historian'', Fall 2003 </ref> He was killed in battle in aerial combat with four German planes while directing artillery fire on June 5, 1918, near [[Maignelay-Montigny|Maignelay]], France, 50 miles north of Paris.<ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30D1EFB355F157A93CAA9178CD85F4C8185F9 |title=TRIBUTE TO BLUETHENTHAL - Posthumous Citation of Flier Who Was a Princeton Athlete|publisher=The New York Times |date=July 8, 1918 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ |title=Encyclopedia of Jews in sports |publisher=Bloch Pub. Co |date=1995 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="google3"/> He was the first North Carolinian killed in World War I. His body was brought home in 1921, and he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington.<ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1"/><ref>[http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/collateral/articles/f03.flying.unfriendly.skies.pdf "Flying the Unfriendly Skies: North Carolinians in the Two World Wars"], ''Tar Heel Junior Historian'', Fall 2003 </ref>
On June 1, 1917, he joined the French flying corps, flying a single engine [[Breguet Aviation|Breguet]] bomber in the [[Lafayette Escadrille|Escadrille]] Breguet 227 of the [[Lafayette Flying Corps]], as the only American in the squadron.<ref name="google2"/><ref name="google1"/><ref name="google3">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zrpb67qFXUIC&pg=PT236&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false|author= Thomas C. Parramore|title=First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation |publisher=UNC Press Books |date= 2003|accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/collateral/articles/f03.flying.unfriendly.skies.pdf "Flying the Unfriendly Skies: North Carolinians in the Two World Wars"], Tom Belton, ''Tar Heel Junior Historian'', Fall 2003 </ref> He was killed in battle in aerial combat with four German planes while directing artillery fire on June 5, 1918, near [[Maignelay-Montigny|Maignelay]], France, 50 miles north of Paris.<ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30D1EFB355F157A93CAA9178CD85F4C8185F9 |title=Tribute to Bluethenthal-Posthumous Citation of Flier Who Was a Princeton Athlete|publisher=The New York Times |date=July 8, 1918 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ |author= Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver|title=Encyclopedia of Jews in sports |publisher=Bloch Pub. Co |date=1995 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="google3"/> He was the first North Carolinian killed in World War I. His body was brought home in 1921, and he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington.<ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1"/><ref>[http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/collateral/articles/f03.flying.unfriendly.skies.pdf "Flying the Unfriendly Skies: North Carolinians in the Two World Wars"], Tom Belton, ''Tar Heel Junior Historian'', Fall 2003 </ref>


France posthumously awarded him a second ''Croix de Guerre'', with Palm. He also received the ''[[Médaille Militaire]]''.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="google2"/>
France posthumously awarded him a second ''Croix de Guerre'', with Palm. He also received the ''[[Médaille Militaire]]''.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="google2"/>
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==Personal==
==Personal==
The airport in Wilmington, North Carolina, was named [[Bluethenthal Field]] on [[Memorial Day]], May 30, 1928, in his honor.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1"/><ref name="google2"/><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Zo9V8QPEgv4C&pg=PA29&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false |title=Along the Cape Fear |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |date=1998 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>
The airport in Wilmington, North Carolina, was named [[Bluethenthal Field]] on [[Memorial Day]], May 30, 1928, in his honor.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/><ref name="wrightsvillebeachmagazine1"/><ref name="google2"/><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Zo9V8QPEgv4C&pg=PA29&dq=Arthur+Bluethenthal+football&hl=en&ei=VDgRTYv6FIT58AbU5dGVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Bluethenthal%20football&f=false|author= Susan Taylor Block|title=Along the Cape Fear |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |date=1998 |accessdate=December 22, 2010}}</ref>


Bluethenthal was Jewish, and was a member of Wilmington's Temple Israel, the first synagogue in North Carolina.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/>
Bluethenthal was Jewish, and was a member of Wilmington's Temple Israel, the first synagogue in North Carolina.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/>

Revision as of 04:28, 22 December 2010

Arthur Bluethenthal, nicknamed "Bluey" (November 1, 1891, in Wilmington, North Carolina – June 5, 1918), was an All American football player for Princeton University who died in combat for France in World War I.[1]

Early life

The son of Leopold and Johanna Bluethenthal, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy prior to attending Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1913.[2]

Football career

At Princeton University the 5' 9", 186-pound Bluethenthal played center from 1910–12. In 1911, he was named first team All-America by a number of newspapers, Walter Camp second team All-America, and first team All-East in a consensus of 28 newspapers. That year, the Tigers were 8–0–2, and yielded only 15 points the entire year. In 1912, Walter Camp selected him as third team All-America. Bluethenthal is a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3][4]

Coaching career

After he graduated in 1912, Bluethenthal became the line coach for the Princeton Tigers, and then for the University of North Carolina.[3][5][6][4]

World War I

File:CroixDeGuerre.jpg
Croix de Guerre

In 1916, a year before the United States entered World War I, he joined the French Foreign Legion and served at the Battle of Verdun with the French 129th Infantry Division. France awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Star for conspicuous bravery.[3][4][2]

On June 1, 1917, he joined the French flying corps, flying a single engine Breguet bomber in the Escadrille Breguet 227 of the Lafayette Flying Corps, as the only American in the squadron.[4][2][7][8] He was killed in battle in aerial combat with four German planes while directing artillery fire on June 5, 1918, near Maignelay, France, 50 miles north of Paris.[5][9][10][7] He was the first North Carolinian killed in World War I. His body was brought home in 1921, and he was buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington.[5][11]

France posthumously awarded him a second Croix de Guerre, with Palm. He also received the Médaille Militaire.[3][4]

A June 1918 tribute to Bluethenthal by Captain Hugh Alwyn Inness-Brown in the Paris Herald said:

In the death of Arthur Bluethenthal, killed in an aerial battle some days ago, France and America lost one of their staunchest patriots. To come to death alone, high in the air, with no friend to tell the story of the struggle and to be buried in a lonely spot near the front, unofficially, with little publicity, would have been the fate that Bluethenthal would have desired, could he have chosen. At all times, he shunned being considered a hero, and when a friend said to him jokingly that his fear of publicity amounted to conceit, he replied, 'Conceit it may be, but I've always taken serving France so seriously that I hardly ever want to talk about it.'[3]

Personal

The airport in Wilmington, North Carolina, was named Bluethenthal Field on Memorial Day, May 30, 1928, in his honor.[3][5][4][12]

Bluethenthal was Jewish, and was a member of Wilmington's Temple Israel, the first synagogue in North Carolina.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history. KTAV Publishing House. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c James William Davenport Seymour (1921). Memorial volume of the American field service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917. American field service. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Bluethenthal, Arthur "Bluey"". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame. Brassey's. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d Marimar McNaughton (January 2009). "Home of Distinction: Family Treasure". Wrightsville Beach Magazine. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  6. ^ "Tiger Football Coaches-Princeton Selects Bluethenthal and Andrews to Drill Eleven". The New York Times. April 15, 1913. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  7. ^ a b Thomas C. Parramore (2003). First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation. UNC Press Books. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  8. ^ "Flying the Unfriendly Skies: North Carolinians in the Two World Wars", Tom Belton, Tar Heel Junior Historian, Fall 2003
  9. ^ "Tribute to Bluethenthal-Posthumous Citation of Flier Who Was a Princeton Athlete". The New York Times. July 8, 1918. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  10. ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1995). Encyclopedia of Jews in sports. Bloch Pub. Co. Retrieved December 22, 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Flying the Unfriendly Skies: North Carolinians in the Two World Wars", Tom Belton, Tar Heel Junior Historian, Fall 2003
  12. ^ Susan Taylor Block (1998). Along the Cape Fear. Arcadia Publishing. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
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