Louis Hasslock

Louis Hasslock
Vanderbilt Commodores
Position Guard
Class Graduate
Career history
College Vanderbilt (19071908)
High school Montgomery Bell Academy
Personal information
Date of birth (1888-02-08)February 8, 1888
Place of birth Nashville, Tennessee
Date of death April 5, 1974(1974-04-05) (aged 86)
Place of death Santa Barbara, California
Weight 173 lb (78 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Louis Whorley "Red" Hasslock (February 8, 1888 April 5, 1974) was a college football player, colonel, and regimental instructor.[1]

College football

Hasslock was a guard for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University.[2] He was selected All-Southern in 1908, a year in which he had to contend for a spot with College Football Hall of Fame member Nathan Dougherty.[3] Before Vanderbilt played Michigan in 1908, Hasslock had been on duty at Reelfoot Lake with a militia who were to guard against night riders. When he learned he could be granted a leave of absence if he were to join his football team, he walked a distance of twenty miles through a country infested with night riders, and caught a train at Union City.[4]

References

  1. "MALONE AND AIDES PASS TESTS POSTS QUALIFIED". The Bakersfield Californian. August 27, 1940. p. 8.
  2. "Wearers of the "V."". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 9: 189. 1909.
  3. Spalding's Football Guide. 1909. p. 75.
  4. "Walks Many Miles To Join Football Team". The Winchester News. October 30, 1908.


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