Hershel Burgess

Hershel Burgess
Texas A&M Aggies
Position	Fullback
Class	1929
Career history
College	Texas A&M (1926–1928)
Career highlights and awards
	National championship (1927); All-Southern (1928); Second-team All-SWC (1927); 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

^ McEachern, Jenna (July 2008). 100 Things Longhorns Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. ISBN 9781617490125.
^ "CONTENTdm" (PDF).
^ "RECAP: 1927 Texas A&M v Texas". Archived from the original on January 13, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
^ "1927". My Aggie Nation.
^ "Texas A&M University".
^ "Gifts & Endowments – TAMU Physics & Astronomy".

External links

Hershel Burgess at Find a Grave

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[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 January 13, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

[4] "1927". My Aggie Nation.

[5] "Texas A&M University".

[6] "Gifts & Endowments – TAMU Physics & Astronomy".

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