{{Short description|American football player and coach (1882–1935)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college football player | name = Jock Hanvey | image = JockHanvey.jpg | caption = Hanvey, {{Circa|1903}} | school = Clemson Tigers | currentposition = Fullback | birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|10|15}} | birth_place = Abbeville County, South Carolina, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|1|15|1882|10|15}} | death_place = Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. | pastschools = Clemson (1902–1903) | highlights = * SIAA championship (1902, 1903) * All-Southern (1902, 1903) }} '''Connor''' "'''Jock'''" '''Hanvey''' (October 15, 1882 – January 15, 1935) was an American college football player and coach.
==Early years== Many of Hanvey's brothers played for Clemson.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958346//|work=The Index-Journal|date=January 5, 1940|title=Motorcade Greeted Men On Return From Dallas|access-date=March 10, 2015|page=3|author=Mary Hemphill Greene|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> George A. Hanvey, Jr. was a lieutenant colonel in the Army.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1959400//|work=The Index-Journal|page=3|date=June 17, 1927|access-date=March 10, 2015|title=Col. Hanvey to be Retired|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref>
==Clemson College==
===Football=== He was a prominent fullback for the Clemson Tigers of Clemson University in 1902 and 1903,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Amateur Sport|journal=The Olympian Magazine|year=1903|volume=2|pages=383–384|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA384}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPugTuXMEq8C&pg=PA6|page=6|title=Clemson: Where the Tigers Play|author=Sam Blackman|via=Google books|access-date=March 10, 2015|date=2001|isbn=9781582613697}} {{Open access}}</ref> winning 2 SIAA titles with John Heisman as coach and selected All-Southern in both years.<ref>e.g. {{Closed access}} {{Cite news|url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=E57W4FHFMTQxMDkzNjg1OS45NzI2Mjg6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=16&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=16&p_docnum=2&p_docref=v2:11DF9354DC3283FB@EANX-11E5852EFA636728@2416631-11E3425A8A6AEA78@9-137C5F7F6608D33A@All-Southern%20Team%20University%20of%20Virginia%20Represented%20in%20the%20Makeup|title = All-Southern Team|date = May 30, 1904|work = Baltimore American}}</ref>
====1902==== He scored 3 touchdowns on Georgia in 1902,<ref name=king>{{cite book|url=http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/Press/pubs/king/king_supplement.pdf|title=Fighting Like Cats and Dogs|author=Kyle King|pages=33–34}}</ref> and started every game that year.<ref name=king/>
====1903==== Clemson beat the Georgia Bulldogs 29 to 0; Frank M. Ridley assisted the Bulldogs and praised Hanvey's work against his team, stating he was the most remarkable player in the south with the possible exception of Frank Kyle.<ref>{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=October 19, 1903|access-date=March 10, 2015|page=7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958356/the_atlanta_constitution/|title=Football Notes}} {{Open access}}</ref> Georgia offered Clemson a bushel of apples for every point over 29 it scored against rival Georgia Tech. Clemson would win 73 to 0, leading to Heisman's job at Tech the next year. Hanvey rushed for 104 yards in the first half.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Clemson University Football Programs - Clemson Vs Duke|date=October 17, 1987|url=https://archive.org/stream/clemsonuniversit00cle_31i/clemsonuniversit00cle_31i_images#page/n81/mode/2up/search/Hanvey|title=This Day in Tiger Football|author=Foster Senn|page=81}}</ref> The account in the ''Atlanta Constitution'' read "Hanvey, the Clemson full back, outclassed them all. Time and time again he was sent through the line for gains of 10, 15 and 20 yards, and his tackles were spectacular."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1959429//|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=October 18, 1903|page=7|access-date=March 10, 2015|via=Newspapers.com|title=Tech Slaughtered By Clemson Tigers}} {{Open access}}</ref> In Heisman's last game at Clemson, Hanvey kicked the tying extra point in the 11 to 11 tie game at the end of the year with Cumberland billed as the championship of the south.<ref name=cumb>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhJwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT136|author=Lou Sahadi|title=100 Things Clemson Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die|date=October 2014|isbn=9781623689490}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph/page/67 67]|title=Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football|year=1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|author=Wiley Lee Umphlett|isbn=9780313284045 }}</ref> Hanvey at one point during the season injured his shoulder.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1959370//|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=November 29, 1903|page=6|title=Seventeen Were Killed On Football Field Of '03|access-date=March 10, 2015|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref>
==After Clemson== Hanvey also was involved with football at Florida State College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958329/the_indexjournal/|work=The Index-Journal|date=January 18, 1935|page=8|access-date=March 10, 2015|title=Connor Hanvey Passes Away|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> He assisted Jack Forsythe at the former.
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{1902 College Football Composite All-Southerns}} {{1903 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
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