Fred Pickhard

Fred Pickhard
Alabama Crimson Tide No. 72

Position	Tackle
Class	Graduate
Career history
College	Alabama (1924–1927)
Bowl games	Rose Bowl (1926, 1927)
High school	Mobile
Personal information
Date of birth	(1906-07-20)July 20, 1906
Place of birth	Mobile, Alabama
Date of death	April 11, 1993(1993-04-11) (aged 86)
Place of death	Portland, Oregon
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	201 lb (91 kg)
Career highlights and awards
National champion (1925, 1926) All-Southern (1926, 1927) 2× Second-team All-American (1926, 1927) Rose Bowl MVP (1927)

Frederick William Pickhard Jr. (July 20, 1906 – April 11, 1993)^[1] was a college football player.

Early years

Fred Pickhard, Jr. was born in Mobile, Alabama on July 20, 1906 to Frederick William Pickhard and Estella Guise. His mother came from Ohio.

The 1922 Mobile High football team includes Pickhard.

University of Alabama

Pickhard was a prominent tackle for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama from 1924 to 1927. He was selected All-Southern^[2] and second-team All-America in 1926 and 1927.

1926

Pickhard blocked the punt against Sewanee in 1926, leading to the safety which secured the game and the undefeated season.^[3]^[4] Alabama also got two scores off blocks from Pickhard in the LSU game which followed. Just 16 punts were blocked all year for scores in college football, and Pickhard had three of them. He was selected Most Valuable Player of the 1927 Rose Bowl in which Alabama tied Stanford.^[5]

1927

He was captain of the 1927 team.

Later years

After his football career, Pickhard moved to Oregon in 1938 and married Lucile Hoober. They had three children- Penny, Barbara, and Fred III- and eventually had nine grandchildren. He also coached football and eventually started a long-term career with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Portland, Oregon as a service manager. He died of heart failure in his Portland home on April 11, 1993. Pickhard is buried at the Portland Memorial Mausoleum.

References

↑ Dates confirmed via U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line] Number: xxx-xx-5671; Issue State: Oregon; Issue Date: Before 1951.
↑ "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.
↑ "All-Americans".
↑ "Crimson Centennial Moment". Tuscaloosa News. October 23, 1992.
↑ "Bama Championships".

Fred Pickhard – awards and honors

1925 Alabama Crimson Tide football—national champions
10 Pooley Hubert 17 Johnny Mack Brown 58 Hoyt "Wu" Winslett 72 Fred Pickhard Red Barnes Jim Bowdoin Tolbert "Red" Brown Bill Buckler Herschel Caldwell Roy Lloyd Dismukes Grant Gillis Gordon Holmes Bruce Jones Claude Perry Dave Rosenfeld Archie Taylor Head coach Wallace Wade Assistant coaches Russ Cohen Hank Crisp Clyde "Shorty" Propst William T. Van de Graaff

1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football—national champions
58 Hoyt "Wu" Winslett 72 Fred Pickhard Red Barnes Jim Bowdoin Tolbert "Red" Brown Herschel Caldwell Ben Enis Ellis Hagler Gordon Holmes Babe Pearce Ray Pepper Claude Perry Dave Rosenfeld Archie Taylor Head coach Wallace Wade Assistant coaches Russ Cohen Hank Crisp Clyde "Shorty" Propst William T. Van de Graaff

1926 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Bill Spears HB George Morton HB Red Barnes FB Ty Rauber
Line	E Hoyt Winslett E Herschel Caldwell T Curtis Luckey T John Barnhill G Fred Pickhard G Charles Mackall C Gordon Holmes

1927 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Bill Spears HB Stumpy Thomason HB Dick Dodson FB Herdis McCrary
Line	E Tom Nash E Ivey Shiver T Fred Pickhard T Jess Tinsley G John Barnhill G Gene Smith C Elvin Butcher

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