Class Graduate Place of death Dover, Delaware Date of birth 1868 Name Charles Wharton | Role American football player Date of death November 15, 1949 Positions Guard | |
College University of Pennsylvania (1894–1896) Died November 15, 1949, Dover, Delaware, United States Education University of Pennsylvania | ||
Place of birth Magnolia, Delaware | ||
Charles "Buck" Wharton (1868 – November 15, 1949) was an American football player. He was selected as an All-American guard in 1896 while playing for the University of Pennsylvania. The Penn teams of 1894 and 1895, with Wharton and fellow Hall of Fame inductee, Charlie Gelbert, as the guards were undefeated both years and won back-to-back national championships. In the College Football Hall of Fame biography of Wharton, the 6-foot, 3-inch guard was called "a blocking dynamo, often taking out entire sides of an enemy line in the style of an axe-swinging Paul Bunyan." Wharton also served as state senator in Delaware from 1914 to 1917. He served as state senator in Delaware from 1914 to 1917. Buck also served as Penn's director of field athletics and line coach. In 1963, he was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.