Albert Hill (American football)

Albert Barnett "Buster" Hill (August 12, 1896 – October 13, 1969)^[1] was a college football player.

Albert Hill

Hill in 1917 "Buster"
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position	Quarterback
Class	1917
Personal information
Born:	(1896-08-12)August 12, 1896 Washington, Georgia, U.S.
Died:	October 13, 1969(1969-10-13) (aged 73) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight	164 lb (74 kg)
Career history
College	Georgia Tech (1914–1917)
High school	Washington
Career highlights and awards
National champion (1917) SIAA championship (1916, 1917) All-Southern (1917) second-team All-American (1917) Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame Tech All-Era Team (John Heisman Era)

Early years

Albert Barnett Hill was born on August 12, 1896, in Washington, Georgia, to William Meriwether Hill and Susan Montgomery Stokes. He attended Washington High.^[2]

Georgia Tech

Hill entered the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1913. He was a prominent player for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football teams. Hill was elected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1966.^[3]

1917

Hill was the quarterback for Georgia Tech's first national championship team in 1917, which outscored opponents 491 to 17. That year, he received the most carries while leading one of the greatest ever backfields alongside Everett Strupper, Joe Guyon, and Judy Harlan.^[4][5][6] Hill led the nation in touchdowns. Sometimes simply referred to as the "diminutive quarterback,"^[7] Hill was selected as a second-team All-American at the end of the 1917 season by Jack Veiock, sports editor of the International News Service (INS).^[8] Heisman considered the 1917 team the best one he ever coached,^[9] and for many years the team was considered the greatest football team the South ever produced.^[10]

See also

• List of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets starting quarterbacks

References

1. The Hills of Wilkes County, Georgia and allied families. Atlanta, Ga., Johnson-Dallis company. 1922. p. 122.
2. https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/14413/1919compressed.pdf.txt?sequence=24
3. "Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
4. "Georgia Tech's 1917 backfield, better than the Four Horsemen Part 2" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
5. Adam Van Brimmer (2006). Stadium Stories: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Insiders' Guide. p. 7. ISBN 9780762740208.
6. "Everett Strupper, Tech Immortal, Passes Suddenly". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. 28 (4). 1950.
7. O. B. Keeler (1938). Golf In North Carolina. Рипол Классик. ISBN 9785882112003.
8. Jack Veiock (December 11, 1917). "Veiock's All-American Elevens for 1917 Season". Logansport Pharos-Reporter.
9. Adam Van Brimmer (2011). 100 Things Yellow Jackets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die. Triumph Books. ISBN 9781617495748.
10. Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating The Big Game. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 141. ISBN 0313284040.

External links

• Albert Hill at Find a Grave