Louis Hasslock Explained

Louis Hasslock
Class:Graduate
Birth Date:8 February 1888
Birth Place:Nashville, Tennessee
Death Place:Santa Barbara, California
School:Vanderbilt Commodores
Highschool:Montgomery Bell Academy
Currentposition:Guard
Pastschools:Vanderbilt (1907 - 1908)
Weight Lb:173
Highlights:

Louis Whorley "Red" Hasslock (February 8, 1888  - April 5, 1974) was a college football player, colonel, and regimental instructor.[1]

College football

Hasslock was a guard for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University.[2] He was selected All-Southern in 1908, a year in which he had to contend for a spot with College Football Hall of Fame member Nathan Dougherty.[3] Before Vanderbilt played Michigan in 1908, Hasslock had been on duty at Reelfoot Lake with a militia who were to guard against night riders. When he learned he could be granted a leave of absence if he were to join his football team, he walked a distance of twenty miles through a country infested with night riders, and caught a train at Union City.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. News: The Bakersfield Californian. August 27, 1940. MALONE AND AIDES PASS TESTS POSTS QUALIFIED. 8.
  2. Wearers of the "V.". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 9. 189. 1909.
  3. Book: Spalding's Football Guide. 1909. 75. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service .
  4. News: Walks Many Miles To Join Football Team. The Winchester News. October 30, 1908.
  5. Book: Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake . 9780817350390 . 23 June 2003 . University of Alabama Press .