Lyman Perry
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| File:Lyman S. Perry.jpg A 1932 photograph taken in the Navy press room likely in the first half of the year while he was still assigned to the office of Chief of Naval Operations. | |
| Profile | |
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| Position | Guard |
| Personal information | |
| Born | March 10, 1897 Andover, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | June 2, 1975 (aged 78) Easton, Maryland, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| College | Navy (1918) |
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Lyman Spencer "Pop" Perry (March 10, 1897 – June 2, 1975) was an American football player and naval officer. He played college football for the Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy. After the 1918 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team guard on the 1918 College Football All-America Team.[1]
Perry served in the United States Navy from graduation until January 1946, attaining the rank of commodore.[2] He was also served as athletic director at the Naval Academy from 1942 to 1943.[3] He died in 1975 in Easton, Maryland.[4] He was buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis.[2]
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Categories:
- 1897 births
- 1975 deaths
- All-American college football players
- American football guards
- Navy Midshipmen football players
- Players of American football from Ohio
- People from Andover, Ohio
- Sportspeople from Ashtabula County, Ohio
- Burials at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery
- 20th-century American sportsmen