Hall of Fame
Position: Guard
Years: 1893-1897
Place of Birth: Uniontown, NJ
Date of Birth: Dec 31, 1875
Place of Death: Unknown
Date of Death: Oct 30, 1933
Height: 6-2
Weight: 215
High School: Phillipsburg, NJ (Phillipsburg HS)
Babe Rinehart and fellow Hall of Famer Frank "Dutch" Schwab played football 22 years apart, yet they remain the greatest pair of linemen in Lafayette College history. Rinehart set the pace when the 6-2, 215-pound guard became one of the first outside-of-the-Ivy-Leaguers to gain All-America recognition from selector Walter Camp. Rinehart was the steadying influence on the unbeaten Maroon and White team of 1896, which chartered victories over such powers as Virginia, Penn and Navy, and held mighty Princeton to a scoreless tie in posting an 11-0-1 record. Rinehart garnered All-America honors again in 1897, as captain of the little Easton, Pennsylvania, school. Years later, Parke Davis, another genuine authority of football's Pioneer Era, named Rinehart to his All-Time All-America first team, while New York Sun football editor George Trevor hailed Rinehart as, "one of the great guards of the era." The only two guards Trevor placed ahead of Rinehart were the immortal Hall of Famers Pudge Heffelfinger of Yale and Truxton Hare of Penn. Rinehart graduated from Lafayette with a degree in Civil Engineering and went on to become president of a tire manufacturing firm, a position he held at the time of his death in 1933.
