Hershel E. Burgess was a
college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
Unlike most ...
player. He was a prominent
running back for the
Texas A&M Aggies, a star on the national champion
1927 team. He was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975. There is a physics chair at
Texas A&M named in his honor, the Hershel E. Burgess '29 Chair in Physics.
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Texas A&M Aggies football players
All-Southern college football players
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