{{Short description|American football player (1893–1976)}} {{other people|Walter Trumbull}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox college football player |name=Walter Trumbull |image= |birth_date={{Birth date|1893|07|16}} |birth_place=[[Salem, Massachusetts]], U.S. |death_date={{Death date and age|1976|12|13|1893|07|16}} |death_place=[[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. |school=Harvard Crimson |currentposition=[[Tackle (American football)|Tackle]], [[Center (American football)|Center]] |pastschools=[[Harvard Crimson football|Harvard]] (1914) |highlights= * Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1914 College Football All-America Team|1914]]) }} '''Walter Henry Trumbull''' (July 16, 1893 – December 13, 1976) was an American [[American football|football]] player for the [[Harvard Crimson football]] team.
==Playing career== Trumbull attended [[Middlesex School]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]] before enrolling at [[Harvard College]]. He played at the [[Tackle (American football)|tackle]] and [[Center (American football)|center]] positions for [[Percy Haughton]]'s [[Harvard Crimson]] football from 1912 to 1914. During Trumbull's three years as a starter for Harvard, the football team did not lose a single game compiling records of 9–0 in 1912, 9–0 in 1913, and 7–0–2 in 1914. In December 1913, he placed second to [[Charles Brickley]] in voting among his teammates for the position of captain of the 1914 team.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brickley Made Captain of Harvard Eleven|newspaper=Reading Eagle|date=1913-12-19}}</ref> Trumbull was selected as a first-team All-American at the tackle position in 1914. His son, Wally Trumbull Jr., played for Harvard during the 1940s.<ref name="Son">{{cite news |last1=Birtwell |first1=Roger |title=Trumbull, Jr., Earns Harvard Starting Berth |work=The Boston Globe |date=November 11, 1943}}</ref>
==Later life== During [[World War I]], Trumbull was rejected for military service due to poor eyesight.<ref name="Son" /> He instead joined the Army and Navy YMCA in France and was placed in charge of motion picture work.<ref>{{cite news|title=US Soldiers See Free Shows|newspaper=The Evening Missourian|date=1917-12-31}}</ref> After the war, he returned to [[Boston]] and worked as a stock broker. He was a partner in [[Kidder, Peabody & Company]] and later worked for [[E. A. Pierce & Co.]] He left the brokerage business in 1938 to become the director of admissions at the Middlesex School. He retired in 1948 and spent one year with the [[United Nations]] as the coordinator of government contributions to [[UNICEF]].<ref name="Obituary" /> He also served as the president of the Harvard Club and national vice-chairman of Harvard Divinity School's endowment fund drive.<ref>{{cite news|title=Trumbull to Push Divinity Fund Aid|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson|date=1953-02-09|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/2/9/trumbull-to-push-divinity-fund-aid/}}</ref> He died on December 13, 1976 in Boston after a lengthy illness.<ref name="Obituary">{{cite news |title=Walter Trumbull, 83, broker, football star |work=The Boston Globe |date=December 15, 1976}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{1914 College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
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