Ed_Hamilton_(American_football)

Ed Hamilton (American football)

Ed Hamilton (American football)

Add article description

Edward James Hamilton (October 8, 1880 – ?) was a college football, basketball, and baseball player and coach as well as an attorney. He attended preparatory school at Mooney School in Franklin, Tennessee along with Red Smith and Frank Kyle.[1] Hamilton was born in Enid, Mississippi.[2]

Quick Facts Biographical details, Born ...

Hamilton was an All-Southern end for the first years of Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams.[3] He stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) and weighed 164 pounds (74 kg).[4] He was an All-Southern second baseman on the baseball team. Hamilton coached the Vanderbilt basketball squad in 1903–1904 and 1908–09 for a combined record of 17–5.[5][6]

Hamilton was the first to meet McGugin in Nashville, and has his law office next to his.[7] Hamilton won Bachelor of Ugliness. He married Theresa Henderson, the daughter of judge John Henderson.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    Mooney, Russell E.; Burke, Marianne Turpin (1964). A Mooney genealogy and miscellany with some allied lines. p. 75.
  2. [2]
    "Ed Hamilton Made Sixteen Letters At Vanderbilt In Four Years". The Tennessean. January 25, 1923. p. 10. Retrieved November 17, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. [3]
    e. g. "On Gridiron In South". Atlanta Constitution. December 25, 1904.
  4. [4]
    "The Football Season of 1904". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 5: 62–69.
  5. [5]
    "Ed Hamilton".
  6. [6]
    Roy M. Neel. DYNAMITE! 75 YEARS OF VANDERBILT BASKETBALL. p. 32.
  7. [7]
    University, Vanderbilt (17 November 2017). "Vanderbilt University Quarterly". Vanderbilt University. – via Google Books.
  8. [8]
    Horton, Mrs Lucy Henderson (17 November 2017). "Family History Compiled by Lucy Henderson Horton ..." Press of the News – via Google Books.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Ed_Hamilton_(American_football), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.