Hub McCormick
| File:Hub McCormick.jpg Hub cropped from 1900 team picture. | |
| Profile | |
|---|---|
| Position | Tackle/Halfback |
| Personal information | |
| Born | August 16, 1878 Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Virginia |
| Died | 1963 |
| Career information | |
| High school | Augusta Military Academy |
| College | V. P. I. (1898–1901) |
| Awards and highlights | |
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Herbert Gilmore[1] "Hub" McCormick (August 16, 1878 – 1963) was a college football player and engineer for the military.[2]
Early years
[edit | edit source]"Hub" was born on August 16, 1878, in Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Virginia, to James Robert McCormick and Ruth Ann Griener. He received his primary school education at Fairfield, and for his high school education he attended Augusta Military Academy, near Staunton, Virginia, from 1896 to 1898.[2]
College athletics
[edit | edit source]McCormick enrolled at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and as a senior was class president.[3] He was selected All-Southern as a tackle on the Virginia Tech Hokies football team in 1901.[4] One source calls him a "holy terror on defensive work."[5] He also played baseball. McCormick later assisted in the construction of Miles Field.[6]
Engineering
[edit | edit source]After graduation at V.P.I. he was employed by Norfolk and Western Railway, as a civil engineer on surveys and constructions, until 1908.[2] After some post-graduate work,[7] he worked with the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, working to improve the Ohio River and its tributaries until 1917.[2] From 1917 to 1918 he was assigned to the job of setting coast defense artillery on the Atlantic Coast; and from 1919 to 1930 his assignment was construction of locks and dams on the Ohio River.[2]
McCormick retired in 1946.[8]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ His WW1 draft registration has his middle name as Granville, cf. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Registration State: Virginia; Registration County: Rockbridge; Roll: 1985176
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- 1878 births
- 1963 deaths
- American football tackles
- Engineers from Virginia
- Virginia Tech Hokies football players
- All-Southern college football players
- Players of American football from Virginia
- Baseball players from Virginia
- People from Rockbridge County, Virginia
- American football halfbacks
- 19th-century players of American football