Jack Turnbull (lacrosse)

Jack Turnbull, born John Iglehart Turnbull on June 30, 1910 in Baltimore, Maryland, was an American lacrosse player and a 1965 inductee into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He captained the lacrosse team at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1926, also played football and basketball there, and as a young player took part in the playoffs for the 1928 Olympic Games. At Johns Hopkins University he was named an All-American in each of his three years on the Blue Jays men's lacrosse team and is widely regarded as one of the best ever to play the game; he also played football and helped establish an ice hockey team. He captained the United States lacrosse team during the 1932 Summer Olympics, played for the Mount Washington Lacrosse Club, and was a member of the United States field hockey team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Turnbull joined the Maryland National Guard as an aviation cadet in 1940, rose to lieutenant colonel, and died on October 20, 1944 of injuries from a B-24 crash in Belgium. The Jack Turnbull Award, given to the nation's best collegiate attackman, bears his name.