H._L._Fairbanks

H. L. Fairbanks

H. L. Fairbanks

American baseball player, football player/coach, and lawyer

Hiland Lockwood Fairbanks (September 21, 1871 – February 15, 1909) was an American minor league baseball player, lawyer and college football player and coach. He was a two-sport athlete at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, playing quarterback on the school's football team and serving as a team captain in 1893.[1] During his collegiate days, he also played baseball for the Bangor Millionaires.[2] After graduating, he served as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi for one season, in 1895,, compiling a record of 2–1.[3]

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Fairbanks died after suffering from tuberculosis in 1909. The Hiland Lockwood Fairbanks award at Bowdoin is named in his honor.[4]

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  1. [1]
    "Football History" (PDF). Bowdoin Polar Bears football. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Hiland Fairbanks". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School". Bowdoin College. 1911. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  4. [4]
    Bowdoin College: Catalogue. Bowdoin College. 1905. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
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