{{Short description|American football and basketball player (1899–1980)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college football player |name=Albert Staton |image=alstaton.jpg |caption=Staton c. 1920 |birth_date={{Birth date|1899|12|4}} |birth_place=Attalla, Alabama, U.S. |death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1980|1|15|1899|12|4}} |death_place=Medellin, Colombia, U.S. |currentposition=End |weight_lb=182 |highschool=Boys |pastschools=Georgia Tech (1918–1922) |highlights= * SIAA championship (1918, 1920, 1921) * SoCon championship (1922) *All-Southern (1919, 1920, 1921, 1922) *Tech Athletics Hall of Fame *Tech All-Era Team (John Heisman Era) }} '''Albert Hammond Staton''' (December 4, 1899 – January 15, 1980) was a college football and basketball player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/albert_h_staton.pdf |title=Albert H. Staton |access-date=November 4, 2017 |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107002757/http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/albert_h_staton.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a Coca-Cola executive in Colombia.
== Early years == Albert Staton was born on December 4, 1899, in Attalla, Alabama, the son of John Curtis Staton and Bivien Hammond Staton.<ref>"Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929," database, ''FamilySearch'' (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPF7-MBJS: 9 September 2019), Albert Hamon Staton, 1 Oct 1918; citing Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia, United States, Military Service, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta.</ref> He attended Boys High School in Atlanta, Georgia.
== Georgia Tech == Staton graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Tech. He was a prominent end for the Georgia Tech football team. He was selected All-Southern every year he played,<ref>{{Closed access}} {{cite news|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=D4EJ51UHMTQwOTk3NTY4OC42OTUzOTk6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=13&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=13&p_docnum=21&p_docref=v2:114CF48AE24B9638@EANX-117ECE2B64E18F10@2423402-117ECE2E09804428@20-117ECE4B4D0B4778@Georgia%20Tech%20Has%20Four%20on%20All%20-%20Southern%20Team%20Bomar%2C%20Vanderbilt%2C%20Barron%2C%20Yellow-Jacket%20Are%20Universal%20Selections|newspaper=Miami Herald|title=Georgia Tech Has Four on All-Southern Team|date=December 13, 1922}}</ref> and picked for its All-Era Team. Albert played with his brother John.
In 1921, Staton was captain of the basketball team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/26926669/|work=The Atlanta Constitution|title=Staton Elected|date=March 20, 1920|page=14}}</ref>
Staton was elected into the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ramblinwreck.com/extras/local/halloffame.html|title=Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame|access-date=2014-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807093222/http://www.ramblinwreck.com/extras/local/halloffame.html|archive-date=2016-08-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Al Staton was the first chief executive officer of the Alumni Association and editor of its magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://issuu.com/gtalumni/docs/2007_84_1/71|journal=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine|page=69|title=75 Years Ago|volume=84|number=1|year=2007}}</ref> He could also sing, a baritone.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekJEAQAAMAAJ|title = Southern Telephone News|year = 1921|publisher = Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company, Incorporated}}</ref>
== Coca-Cola == He worked for the Coca-Cola company in Colombia, founding the company Panamerican Beverages.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gviPDwAAQBAJ|isbn=9780520970946|title=Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation|date=28 May 2019|publisher=Univ of California Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://colombiareports.com/new-colombian-entrant-on-forbes-rich-list/|title=New Colombian entrant on Forbes rich list|first=Charles|last=Parkinson|date=March 8, 2012}}</ref> He joined the company in 1924.<ref>{{Cite journal|s2cid=158980469|doi=10.15446/HYS.N34.65507|title=Selling Local Modernization through the Global Corporation: Coca-Cola Bottling in Colombia, 1927-1944|year=2018|last1=Ciafone|first1=Amanda|journal=Historia y Sociedad|issue=34|pages=41–75|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==World War II== During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wL3LoQEACAAJ|title = The Unknown Legacy of Albert H. Staton|isbn = 9780990570905|last1 = Staton|first1 = Inge|last2 = Villa|first2 = Ofelia Luz de|year = 2015| publisher=White Poppy Press }}</ref>
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