Jimmy Hitchcock
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| Auburn Tigers No. 20; 22 | |
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| Position | Halfback / Quarterback |
| Class | Graduate |
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| High school | Union Springs |
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| Date of birth | June 28, 1911 |
| Place of birth | Inverness, Alabama |
| Date of death | July 23, 1959 (aged 48) |
| Place of death | Montgomery, Alabama |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 172 lb (78 kg) |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (1954) | |
James Franklin Hitchcock, Jr. (June 28, 1911 – July 23, 1959) was an American college football player and Major League baseball player during the Depression Era. Hitchcock played for the Auburn Tigers football team of Auburn University (then Alabama Polytechnic Institute), where he was the school's first All-American in both football and baseball.
Jimmy Hitchcock was born on June 28, 1911 in Inverness, Alabama to James Franklin Hitchcock, clerk of the circuit court in Bullock County, and Sallie Louise Davis.
Known as "The Phantom of Union Springs", where he played in high school, Hitchcock earned three varsity football letters at Auburn from 1930 to 1932. As a triple-threat halfback, he led his team to the 1932 Southern Conference championship. Hitchcock was named a member of the 1932 Walter Camp College Football All-America Team and was inducted into the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. He was a member of an All-time Auburn Tigers football team selected in 1935. He was posthumously inducted into the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame in 1966 and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1969. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1920-1969 era team.
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