Biographical details | |
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Born | Enid, Mississippi, U.S. | October 8, 1880
Alma mater | Vanderbilt University |
Playing career | |
1902–1905 | Vanderbilt |
Position(s) | Forward, End (football), Second baseman |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1903–1904 | Vanderbilt (basketball) |
1908–1909 | Vanderbilt (basketball) |
1909–1910 | Vanderbilt (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
2x All-Southern (1904, 1905) | |
Edward James Hamilton (October 8, 1880 – ?) was a college football, basketball, and baseball player and coach as well as an attorney. He attended preparatory school at Mooney School in Franklin, Tennessee along with Red Smith and Frank Kyle.[1] Hamilton was born in Enid, Mississippi.[2]
Hamilton was an All-Southern end for the first years of Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams.[3] He stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) and weighed 164 pounds (74 kg).[4] He was an All-Southern second baseman on the baseball team. Hamilton coached the Vanderbilt basketball squad in 1903–1904 and 1908–09 for a combined record of 17–5.[5][6]
Hamilton was the first to meet McGugin in Nashville, and has his law office next to his.[7] Hamilton won Bachelor of Ugliness. He married Theresa Henderson, the daughter of judge John Henderson.[8]
References
- ↑ Mooney, Russell E.; Burke, Marianne Turpin (1964). A Mooney genealogy and miscellany with some allied lines. p. 75.
- ↑ "Ed Hamilton Made Sixteen Letters At Vanderbilt In Four Years". The Tennessean. January 25, 1923. p. 10. Retrieved November 17, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ e. g. "On Gridiron In South". Atlanta Constitution. December 25, 1904.
- ↑ "The Football Season of 1904". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 5: 62–69.
- ↑ "Ed Hamilton".
- ↑ Roy M. Neel. DYNAMITE! 75 YEARS OF VANDERBILT BASKETBALL. p. 32.
- ↑ University, Vanderbilt (17 November 2017). "Vanderbilt University Quarterly". Vanderbilt University. – via Google Books.
- ↑ Horton, Mrs Lucy Henderson (17 November 2017). "Family History Compiled by Lucy Henderson Horton ..." Press of the News – via Google Books.