Harry LeGore

Harry William LeGore (August 1, 1894 – June 7, 1956) was an American football and baseball player, Maryland state legislator and businessman.

Biography

Early life LeGore was born in Frederick County, Maryland. He was a son of the James William LeGore. His father founded the LeGore Lime Company in 1861 and built the LeGore Bridge near Woodsboro, Maryland. LeGore attended the Tome School, Mercersburg Academy and Lafayette College.

Yale LeGore enrolled at Yale University where he played for the school's football, baseball and basketball teams and was a member of Skull and Bones.

In football, LeGore played halfback and fullback. He also handled punting duties and reportedly had a 65-yard average. and as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly and Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune.

LeGore also played shortstop for the Yale baseball team. In 1915, LeGore was ruled permanently ineligible to complete in college athletics after it was found that his food and lodging had been paid while playing summer baseball.

At the end of the 1916 season, LeGore was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly, International News Service, Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune, and Paul Purman, noted sports writer whose All-American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States, and University of Michigan football coach Fielding H. Yost. In selecting LeGore as an All-American, Walter Camp called him "one of the nation's greatest athletes." In 1934, he was elected to the Maryland State Senate. In 1936, he made an unsuccessful run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. LeGore eventually became president of the LeGore Lime Company and also served as a director of the Potomac Edison Company.

Posthumous honors In 1977, LeGore was inducted into Maryland's Alvin G. Quinn Memorial Sports Hall of Fame.

In 1999, The News-Post in Maryland picked LeGore as one of the Top 25 most significant sports figures in the history of Frederick County. He was the county's first athlete to be selected as a collegiate All-American.