| Lucy Hairston | |
| Birth Date: | 18 November 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Crawford, Mississippi |
| Death Date: | 2 March, 1944 |
| Death Place: | Mobile, Alabama |
| Weight Lb: | 175 |
| School: | Auburn Tigers |
| Currentposition: | Quarterback |
| Class: | Graduate |
| Pastschools: | Auburn (1913 - 1916) |
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Legare "Lucy" Hairston (November 19, 1892 - January 1980) was an American football player for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University. One writer claims "Auburn had a lot of great football teams, but there may not have been one greater than the 1913-1914 team."[1] One story of the origin of the school's "War Eagle" started with Hairston,[2] the starting quarterback during the Carlisle - Auburn game in 1914.[3] [4]
In the 1916 game against,[5] Moon Ducote kicked a 40-yard field goal off of Hairston's football helmet in the fourth quarter and in the mud, which proved the only points in the 3 - 0 Auburn victory.[6] The maneuver prompted a rule that stated the ball must be kicked directly off the ground.[7]