Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.
Hitchcock in 1913
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| Position | Tackle |
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| College | Harvard (1913) |
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All-American (1913)
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Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr. (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1958) was on the 1913 College Football All-America Team. From an influential missionary family in the Hawaiian Islands, he went insane during World War I.
Hitchcock was born November 9, 1891 on Molokaʻi island in the Kingdom of Hawaii. His father was Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Sr. (1864–1931). His paternal grandparents were Edward Griffin Hitchcock (1837–1898), son of Reverend Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (1800–1855), and Mary Tenney Castle (1838–1926), daughter of Castle & Cooke founder Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894). His mother was Hannah Julia Meyer (1866–1912) who was daughter of Rudolph Wilhelm Meyer. His father's first cousin was painter David Howard Hitchcock (1861–1943). He also had a great-uncle named Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr. who lived 1835–1891 and published a dictionary of the Hawaiian language while principal of Lahainaluna School, and whose account of the 1874 election of King Kalākaua and the ensuing Honolulu Courthouse riot has been published in the Hawaiian Journal of History.
Hitchcock graduated from Punahou School in 1910 winning the Roll of Honor award. He then attended Harvard University, as did his father. While at Harvard he was the vice-president of the Student Union. He played as a tackle on the Harvard Crimson football team and was on the 1913 College Football All-America Team. He also played as pitcher on the baseball team. He graduated in 1914.
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