Hershel Burgess
Texas A&M Aggies
PositionFullback
Class1929
Career history
CollegeTexas A&M (1926–1928)
Career highlights and awards
  • National championship (1927)
  • All-Southern (1928)
  • Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame

Hershel E. Burgess was a college football player. He was a prominent running back for the Texas A&M Aggies,[1][2][3] a star on the national champion 1927 team.[4] He was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975.[5] There is a physics chair at Texas A&M named in his honor, the Hershel E. Burgess '29 Chair in Physics.[6]

References

  1. ↑ McEachern, Jenna (July 2008). 100 Things Longhorns Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. ISBN 9781617490125.
  2. ↑ "CONTENTdm" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "RECAP: 1927 Texas A&M v Texas". Archived from the original on 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  4. ↑ "1927". My Aggie Nation.
  5. ↑ "Texas A&M University".
  6. ↑ "Gifts & Endowments – TAMU Physics & Astronomy".
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