LeRoy Abernethy

LeRoy Franklin Abernethy
North Carolina Tar Heels
Position Fullback
Career history
College North Carolina A&M (1902–04)
North Carolina (1905)
Personal information
Date of birth September 27, 1885
Place of birth Hickory, North Carolina[1]
Date of death November 9, 1959(1959-11-09) (aged 74)[2]
Place of death Asheville, North Carolina
Career highlights and awards

LeRoy Franklin Abernethy (September 27, 1885 – November 9, 1959) was an American college football player from North Carolina. He played for North Carolina A&M from 1902–04 before transferring to the University of North Carolina for 1905.[1]

NC State

1902–1904

Abernethy played first for North Carolina A&M, selected All-Southern by W. S. Kimberly in 1904.[3][4]

University of North Carolina

Abernethy was a prominent fullback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina. He was selected for the position on an all-time Carolina football team of Dr. R. B. Lawson in 1934.[5] On the all time team of Joel Whitaker he was noted as the "probably the best line plunger that has ever been."[6]

1905

He was selected All-Southern by coach R. R. Brown of Washington and Lee University.[7] A fullback did not score three touchdowns again for UNC until Mike Faulkerson in 1992.[8]

Later life

By 1910, Abernethy was engaged in the hardware business in his hometown of Hickory.[9][10]

He later moved to Asheville, where he was a PurÖl distributor and then owner of the Hall-Sell Petroleum Carrier company. During World War II, he helped organize Petroleum Carriers Associates, an emergency oil transport unit,[1] originally named the War Emergency Cooperative Association.[11] In 1941, he married Frieda Burnett Russell in 1941.[12]

He died in an Asheville hospital in 1959 after suffering a heart attack at home.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Abernethy Rites Today". Asheville Citizen-Times. Asheville, North Carolina. November 11, 1959. p. 2.
  2. ↑ North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998
  3. ↑ "For All Southern Football Team". The Morning Post. December 11, 1904. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "The All-Southern Eleven". December 25, 1904. p. 11. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review. 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
  6. ↑ Kemp Plummer Battle. History of the University of North Carolina. p. 752.
  7. ↑ "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Football". The Washington Post. February 18, 1906. p. 13. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Tech Coach Dislikes Rules For NFL Scouts". September 10, 1992.
  9. ↑ The Alumni Review. May 1914. p. 168.
  10. ↑ 1910 United States Census
  11. ↑ "Petroleum Carriers Associates". Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  12. ↑ North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
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