Harold Weekes
Halfback, American football player
1880 – 1950
Who was Harold Weekes?
Harold Hathaway Weekes was an American football player. Weekes played halfback for the Columbia University Lions, 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.
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- Born
- Apr 2, 1880
Oyster Bay - Education
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Oyster Bay
- Died
- Jul 6, 1950
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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