Harry Wilson (halfback)

Harry Edgar Wilson, nicknamed Light Horse Harry, was an American college football, basketball and lacrosse player born on August 6, 1902, in Mingo Junction, Ohio. He grew up in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, and attended high school in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He played at Pennsylvania State University from 1921 to 1923 and at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1924 to 1927, where he earned a record twelve varsity letters in football, basketball and lacrosse. His nickname derives from that of the Revolutionary War figure Henry Lee III. In the 1926 Army-Navy Game he gained more yards than any other player, and his teammates elected him captain of the 1927 Army football team. He entered the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1963 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973, served as a bomber pilot in World War II, retired as a colonel and died on October 26, 1990.