R. V. Truitt

Reginald Van Trump Truitt, known as R. V. Truitt, lived from August 12, 1890, to April 11, 1991, and was an American zoologist, Army officer, and college lacrosse player and coach. His professional career was spent studying the oyster habitat of the Chesapeake Bay, and he founded the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at what is now the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. In lacrosse he served as the first head lacrosse coach at his alma mater, the University of Maryland, from 1919 to 1927, and he was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1959. His entry here rests on that lacrosse record alongside his scientific career.