Hargrove Van de Graaff

Hargrove Van de Graaff
Alabama Crimson Tide
Position End
Class Graduate
Career history
College Alabama (1911–1913)
High school Tuscaloosa
Personal information
Born: (1893-09-07)September 7, 1893
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Died: January 2, 1938(1938-01-02) (aged 44)
Missouri
Weight 146 lb (66 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Coleman Hargrove Van de Graaff (September 7, 1893 – January 2, 1938) was a college football player. He was an advocate for an airport in Tuscaloosa.[1]

Early years

Hargrove was born on September 7, 1893 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Circuit Judge Adrian Sebastain Van de Graaff Sr. and Minnie Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff.[2]

He helped organize sports at Tuscaloosa High School with football, baseball, and track.[3]

College athletics

Hargrove was an All-Southern end for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama.[4] His brothers Adrian and William also played for Alabama. William, known as "Bully," was Alabama's first All-American. Hargrove was the smallest of the three.[5] Hargrove also played baseball and lettered in track. Robert J. Van de Graaff, the inventor of the Van de Graaff generator which produces high voltages, was another brother.

Following a hard-fought scoreless tie with Georgia Tech in 1911, coach John Heisman declared that he had never seen a player "so thoroughly imbued with the true spirit of football as Hargrove Van de Graaff."[2][5] In a game in 1913 against Tennessee, Hargrove nearly lost an ear and tried to rip it off to avoid leaving the game.[5][6][7]

Military

After graduation, Hargrove followed Adrian into the military.[2] He served in Mexico and in France in the First World War. Hargrove came back with the Croix de Guerre.[5]

References

  1. ↑ https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/30
  2. 1 2 3 "Coleman Hargrove Van de Graaff, 1893-1938".
  3. ↑ "THS Claimed 1926 National Grid Title". The Tuscaloosa News. April 25, 1969.
  4. ↑ "Consolidated All-Southern Chosen by Ten Scribes; Eleven Like Innis Brown's". Atlanta Constitution. December 3, 1912. p. 10.
  5. 1 2 3 4 O. B. Keeler. "Hargrove Van De Graaff". The Tuscaloosa News.
  6. ↑ Beverly Crider. Legends and Lore of Birmingham and Central Alabama. p. 77.
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130903014526/http://bama.ua.edu/~jharrell/PH106-S06/vandegraaff.htm
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