Harry S. Hammond

Harry S. Hammond

Hammond cropped from 1907 Michigan football team portrait
Date of birth	November 13, 1884
Place of birth	Crown Point, New York
Date of death	June 9, 1960
Place of death	Westport, Connecticut
Career information
Position(s)	End/Halfback
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg)
College	Michigan
Career history
As player
1904–1907	Michigan

Harry Stevens Hammond (November 13, 1884 – June 9, 1960) was an American football player and businessman. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1904 to 1907. He later had a career in business with the Pressed Steel Car Company and the National Tube Co.

Hammond was born in Crown Point, New York in November 1884. He came from a family that manufactured iron for generations at Crown Point. His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York. When the Hammond family's iron works began to suffer as a result of competition from Lake Superior iron ore, the family moved to Chicago. Hammond's father, Charles Lyman Hammond, was a New York native, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, and a real estate businessman. His mother, Mary Electa (Stevens) Hammond, was a Vermont native. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Hammond lived in Chicago with his parents, four brothers, John (born December 1880), Charles H. (born August 1882), Thomas S. (born October 1883), and Robert (born February 1889), and two servants. He attended the public schools in Chicago.

Hammond's four brothers each became amateur athletes. His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation. Brother Thomas S. Hammond, also played football for Michigan.

Hammond enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1903. He played on the All-Freshman football team in 1903 before joining the varsity team as a sophomore. He played for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1904 to 1907 and was one of the leading scorers on the 1904 and 1905 "Point-a-Minute" football teams. He played at the halfback, fullback and end positions. The 1906 University of Michigan yearbook noted: