Harold Weekes
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| Columbia Lions | |
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| Position | Halfback |
| Class | 1903 |
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| Date of birth | April 2, 1880 |
| Place of birth | Oyster Bay, New York |
| Date of death | July 6, 1950 |
| Place of death | New York, New York |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 178 lb (81 kg) |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (1954) | |
Harold Hathaway Weekes (April 2, 1880 – July 6, 1950) was an American college football player. Weekes played halfback for the Columbia University Lions (1899-1902), and he served as team captain during his senior year. Weekes received induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 as the first of seven Columbia players enshrined. In 1962, the book Football Immortals profiled Weekes for their selection of the greatest 64 American football players from the game's first 93 years. The Bill Shannon Biographical Dictionary of New York Sports termed him a "145-pound lightning bolt" who "hit the college football scene like a shot". During Weekes's college football career, Columbia won 29 games, including 19 shutouts.
Weekes was born on April 2, 1880. He grew up in the town of Oyster Bay, New York on Long Island. In 1899, Weekes graduated from the Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey after playing in the backfield on the school's football team. He graduated from Columbia with his bachelor's degree in 1903 after serving as class vice president. Weekes's graduating class voted him "most popular man" on campus, "best athlete", and "most modest man". In the fall of that year, Weekes returned to the school to work as an assistant coach on the Columbia football team.
In 1927, Weekes and two other former Columbia Lions (Bert Wilson and David Smythe) visited Columbia to speak at Baker Field (now Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium). George Trevor, The New York Sun's football editor, selected Weekes for First Team on Columbia's all-time football team that year. Trevor named him as Columbia's greatest football player of all time. In 2000, a panel of journalists and historians selected Weekes for Columbia's 24-member Football Team of the Century. Twelve years later, Columbia inducted Weekes into their athletic hall of fame at a ceremony held at the school's Low Memorial Library.
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