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1894 Mayo Cut Plug Tobacco Set - The POE Card 

 
The "Poe Card" (likely Neilson Poe)

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The Poe Brothers and Princeton Football
The Poe Brothers, contributed to many Princeton football victories in the twenty years beginning in 1882 and were the special nemesis of Harvard and Yale.

There were six of them, sons of John Prentiss Poe 1854, attorney general of Maryland and nephew of the poet Edgar Allan Poe).

All six Poe boys played football at Princeton between 1880 and 1901. The second brother, Edgar Allan after his famous great-uncle, was selected as quarterback on the first All-America team in 1889. When his nose was broken in an 1890 game, he designed and then wore the first football nose guard.

By all accounts, Arthur '00, the fifth son was the best player of all, making the decisive score that beat Yale in two successive years. He was named to Walter Camp's All-America team in 1899. Only 5'7" and 146 pounds, he was nevertheless an outstanding defensive end for the Tigers and made several long touchdown runs when given the chance to run the ball.

References: A Princeton Companion and Professional Football Researchers Association web site.