October 12, 1878 – Truxtun Hare was a guard from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hare played on the Penn Quakers football team from 1897 through 1900. He was the first of four players to have been a four-year All-American, according to pennathletics.com. Even more amazing was that Hare played every minute of all 54 games in which he competed, as the rules of his playing era stated that players couldn’t return to the game after being substituted.
Truxton was a big dude when he played, too, as he stood 6’-2″ and weighed 208 pounds. Truxton was quite an accomplished athlete, even without football. According to Olympic.org, Hare won a Silver medal in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris for the Hammer Throw Competition and a Bronze medal in the 1904 Olympics played in St. Louis. Truxton Hare was selected to enter the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
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