Fred Linkous

Frederick Cecil Linkous (1905 to 1930) was an American lacrosse player, born in September 1905 in Tazewell County, Virginia. He attended Highland High School in Harford County, Maryland, where he played basketball and soccer, and enrolled at the University of Maryland in 1924. There he was a multi-sport athlete who earned three varsity letters each in football, basketball and lacrosse, captained the basketball team as a senior and was named an All-Southern Conference guard. The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association named him an honorable mention All-American at the home position in 1927 and a first-team All-American at the in home position in 1928. After graduating in 1928 he worked as a teacher and football coach at the Severn School until his death at the age of 24 on March 27, 1930, from a throat infection. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1967 and the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982.