"Paddie Lambert, the old Marshall College star, has made himself solid at centre" for the West Virginia Mountaineers. Additionally, West Virginia's list of football letterman indicates that Oscar Lambert from Charleston, West Virginia played at center for the Mountaineers in 1915. Further, the roster for the 1917 Michigan Wolverines football team refers to Lambert as having previously attended Marshall College. Lambert may have also played baseball in the Cleveland Amateur Association League for a portion of the summer of 1916, before returning to West Virginia in mid-June. University of Michigan After attending college in West Virginia, Lambert attended the University of Michigan Law School. He was president of the law school class of 1919. Lambert was often referred to by the nickname "Paddy" while attending Michigan. With Lambert's enrollment at Michigan, the press anticipated that he would play for Fielding H. Yost's Michigan Wolverines football team. The Boston Evening Transcript wrote about the prospects for Michigan's 1915 football team: "It will be necessary to develop a new centre, and for this post there is Lambert, a new-comer to Ann Arbor from Wesleyan University of West Virginia, where he made an enviable reputation." Although he played for Michigan's All-Freshman team in 1915, Lambert did not play varsity football at Michigan until 1917. At the start of the 1917 football season, Michigan's football coach, Fielding H. Yost, had only four veterans returning from the 1916 team. He found Lambert among the university's law students. The Michigan Alumnus noted: "He dug up Lambert and made him report." Another press report noted that Lambert, who had played on the All-Freshman team in 1915, was a surprise addition to the team in mid-October: "Lambert played at West Virginia several years ago and was a member of the All-Fresh in 1915. He did not play on the varsity this fall and has been in a uniform only a little over a week. He is light, but an accurate passer and a fighter." Lambert was reportedly the lightest man on the 1917 Michigan Wolverines football team at 160 pounds. Yost did not play Lambert until the season's fourth game against the University of Detroit on October 17, 1917. Lambert had a strong showing in his first game for Michigan. The University of Michigan yearbook reported on his performance against Detroit: "The West Virginian managed to make about 50 percent of the tackles and would have made more