Legare "Lucy" Hairston (November 19, 1892 – January 1980) was an American football player for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of

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. One writer claims "Auburn had a lot of great football teams, but there may not have been one greater than the 1913-1914 team." One story of the origin of the school's " War Eagle" started with Hairston, the starting quarterback during the

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–Auburn game in

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. In the 1916 game against ,Auburn and Alabama Flirt With Renewed Relationship
''The Miami News'', December 25, 1928. Moon Ducote kicked a 40-yard

field goal A field goal (FG) is a means of scoring in gridiron football. To score a field goal, the team in possession of the ball must place kick, or drop kick, the ball through the goal, i.e., between the uprights and over the crossbar. The entire ba ...

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. The maneuver prompted a rule that stated the ball must be kicked directly off the ground.Loyola Director, Dick Ducote, Dies
''The Milwaukee Journal'', March 26, 1937.

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