1. Huntington Reed "Tack" Hardwick was an American football player.
22 Facts About Huntington Hardwick
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Huntington Hardwick played at the halfback and end positions for Harvard University.
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Huntington Hardwick never lost a game during his three years on the varsity, and was selected as a unanimous first-team All-American in 1914.
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Huntington Hardwick was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.
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Huntington Hardwick's family immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1752 and had operated a granite quarry in Quincy since 1868.
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Huntington Hardwick lettered in football, baseball, and track and field.
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Huntington Hardwick captained Harvard's baseball team and played center field.
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Huntington Hardwick was a shot putter for the track team and was rated Harvard's strongest man two consecutive seasons.
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Huntington Hardwick gained his greatest fame playing for Percy Haughton's Harvard football teams from 1912 to 1914.
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Huntington Hardwick briefly worked as an assistant coach at the United States Naval Academy, under Jonas Ingram.
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Huntington Hardwick served in the 105th Trench Mortar Battery in France, participating at Messines Ridge, Verdun, St Mihiel, the Argonne, and Woevre.
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Huntington Hardwick described the brutal reality of war, including the death of a German lieutenant, and noted:.
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Huntington Hardwick served as a director of the Columbian Steamship Company, the Santander Navigation Company, and the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation.
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Huntington Hardwick served as a volunteer policeman during the 1919 Boston police strike and was injured during the Scollay Square riot.
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In 1915, Huntington Hardwick married Margaret Stone; the couple had been engaged since 1913.
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Margaret Stone Huntington Hardwick filed for divorce in 1933, citing incompatibility; Huntington Hardwick told the press at the time that the breakup of the marriage was entirely his fault and that both parties regretted the action.
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In September 1948, Huntington Hardwick married Manuela De Zanone-Poma, formerly of Barcelona, Spain, and Cannes, France.
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In June 1949, Huntington Hardwick died of a heart attack while clamming at Church's Beach on Cuttyhunk Island.
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Tack Huntington Hardwick has been a close friend of mine for 35 years.
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Huntington Hardwick told me once that he would rather block or tackle than carry the ball to a touchdown.
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Huntington Hardwick was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its second induction class in 1954.
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Huntington Hardwick was chosen as one of two ends on the pre-1920 squad.