Position Center Date of birth February 24, 1888 | College Harvard (1905–1909) Class Graduate Name Charles Nourse | |
Date of death April 25, 1974(1974-04-25) (aged 86) | ||
Place of birth New York, New York | ||
Charles Joseph Nourse (February 24, 1888 – April 25, 1974) was an American football player and lawyer. He played college football at Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-America Team.
Nourse was born in 1888. He attended preparatory school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
As an undergraduate, Nourse studied law at Harvard College from 1905 to 1909. He was six feet tall and weighed 197 pounds while at Harvard. He played on the freshman football team in 1906 and on the Harvard Crimson football team in 1907 and 1908. After the 1908 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team center on the 1908 College Football All-America Team.
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1909, Nourse spent three years at Columbia Law School. He was editor of the Law Review at Columbia and graduated in 1912. He then practiced, initially with the law with the firm of Winston & Stimson in New York City, and later with the firm of Prince & Burlingame.
During World War I, Nourse served in the 31st Field Artillery, attaining the rank of captain, and serving under Henry L. Stimson, who later became the U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of War. After the war, Nourse returned to the practice of law. From 1927 to 1970, he was with the Wall Street law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts and its predecessor firm, Burlingame, Nourse & Pettit. His clients included Bristol-Myers Company and the New York Trust Company.
Nourse was married in June 1922 to Margaret Lawrence Strong in a ceremony at Short Hills, New Jersey. In his later years, Nourse lived on East 67th Street in Manhattan and also at Oyster Bay, Long Island. He died in April 1974 at his home in Manhattan.