Sanford Beebe Hunt II (January 2, 1881March 31, 1943) was an

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player and newspaper editor. He played

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for the

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team and was selected as a consensus All-American at the

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position in 1901. He was also an editor and director of ''The Newark Sunday Call''. Hunt was born in 1881 at

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. His father, William Talmadge Hunt. In 1888, he moved with his family to Newark, where his father served as the editor-in-chief of ''The Sunday Call''. He received his education at St. George's Hall in

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, and at St. Paul's School in

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. His grandfather Dr. Sanford Beebe Hunt was Surgeon-in-Chief of the Army of the South-West during the Civil War and edited the Newark Daily Advertiser until his death in 1884. Hunt attended Cornell University where he played college football for the

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from 1900 to 1903. He was selected as a consensus All-American in 1901 at the guard position. He was also the captain of Cornell's 1903 football team. He was a member of the

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senior honor society and the

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fraternity at Cornell. From 1905 to 1907, he was employed in construction, working on the construction of

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and other projects. From 1907 to 1912, he worked on the Pacific Coast as a mining engineer. In January 1910, he was the superintendent of the Homestake Mining Company at

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. He also served as an assistant football coach at Cornell in 1909 and at the

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in 1910 and 1911. From 1912 to 1924, Hunt worked in the newspaper industry in New Jersey. In 1921, he played a role in the first ever radio broadcast of the

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. Hunt was on site at the

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and relayed the plays over telephone to engineer Thomas Cowan, who would then repeat them over the radio. From 1924 to 1940, Hunt lived in

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, where he operated a fruit farm. In 1940, he returned to New Jersey and became an associate editor and board member of ''The Newark Sunday Call''. Hunt was married in 1914 to May A. Chambers, sister of actor

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. They had three children, Sanford B. Hunt, Jr., William Talmadge Hunt, and Mrs. Paul E. Colegrove. Hunt died in 1943 in Newark. His son Col. Sanford B. Hunt Jr., (U. S. Marine Corps) participated in the assault and seizure of Guadalcanal where he was awarded the

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