Truxtun Hare

Truxtun Hare was an American athlete who starred at the University of Pennsylvania in football and in track and field. A guard who also called signals, kicked off and punted, he played every minute of every game for four years, earned first-team All-American honors in all four seasons from 1897 to 1900 and helped Penn win 32 consecutive games; Walter Camp said he could have been an All-American at any position. He won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 1900 Olympics in Paris and a bronze medal in the all-rounder at the 1904 Games in St. Louis. He later practiced law and led Bryn Mawr Hospital, and in 1951 he was a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame.