Thomas S . Hammond Thomas Stevens " Tom " or " T . S . " Hammond ( October 29 , 1883 – June 15 , 1950 ) was an America n business and political leader , soldier and football player and coach . He played football for Fielding H . Yost ' s renowned 1903 , 1904 and 1905 " Point - a - Minute " football teams at the University of Michigan . In 1906 , he served as the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels football team . He worked for the Whiting Corporation in Harvey , Illinois , starting in 1907 and eventually became the company ' s president and chairman of the board . During World War I , Hammond served as an artillery officer in the Rainbow Division of the U . S . Army . He remained active in the Illinois National Guard after the war and rose to the rank of brigadier general . Hammond was also active in Republican Party politics and served as the chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee and the Chicago America First Committee . During World War II , he was decorated for his work as chief of production of the Chicago ordnance district . Biography . Early years . Hammond was born in 1883 at Crown Point , New York . He came from a family that manufactured iron for generations at Crown Point . His grandfather was Brig . Gen . John Hammond , who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U . S . Congressman from New York . When the Hammond family ' s iron works began to suffer as a result of competition from Lake Superior iron ore , the family moved to Chicago . The younger Hammond attended Hyde Park High School on the South Side of Chicago , Illinois . He played football at Hyde Park as the fullback in the same backfield with College Football Hall of Fame inductee Walter Eckersall . Hyde Park was undefeated for two consecutive years ( 1901 and 1902 ) with Eckersall and Hammond in the backfield , and both were selected as All - City players by the " Chicago Daily Tribune " for 1902 . In December 1902 , Coach Fielding H . Yost of the University of Michigan attended a Hyde Park game and gave Hammond points on kicking , and " The New York Times " called Hammond and his brother , Harry , " famous ground gainers . " Hammond was captain of the 1902 Hyde Park football team and was recruited to play football by both Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Yost of Michigan . Michigan . In 1903 , Hammond enrolled at the University of Michigan and played football on Fielding Yost ' s famed " Point - a - Minute " football teams from 1903 to 1905 . During those years , the Michigan football team compiled a record of 33 – 1 – 1 and outscored its opponents by a combined three - year total of 1 , 627 to 20 . Hammond was a versatile athlete , playing both defense and offense , and at the end , halfback , fullback and tackle positions for Yost ' s football teams . In his first year at Michigan , Hammond led the team in scoring with 155 points on 13 touchdowns ( worth five points ) , 65 goals after touchdown ( worth one point ) , and five goals from field ( worth five points ) . His 1903 point total was more than double that of any other player , including College Football Hall of Fame inductee Willie Heston ( Heston had 14 touchdowns for 70 points ) . With an additional 88 points scored in 1904 and 109 points in 1905 , Hammond ' s 352 points in three years ranks him among Michigan ' s all - time scoring leaders . In June 1905 , doubts were raised as to whether Hammond would return to play football for Michigan . Coach Yost told the press , " Tom is a law student but is only taking law as a sort of side line to his business career . He has gotten the knowledge that he needs and is anxious to join his father in the actual work of making money . His father is ready to give him the start he wants and , in all probability he will leave the university for good when he finishes his examinations this spring . " Hammond did return to complete his studies in 1905 and played a third season for Yost ' s football team . In November 1905 , " Collier ' s Weekly " published an article by E . S . Jordan making allegations of improprieties in Michigan ' s football program , including the recruitment of football players . The recruitment of Hammond was alleged to be the most " flagrant case of proselyting that has come " to the attention of Western educators . " Jordan claimed that Hammond failed to get through his studies at Hyde Park High School , but " was nevertheless taken to Michigan and given a brief tutoring by special instructors and was soon up in the requirements for entrance . " In an article published in the " Chicago Daily Tribune " , Hammond defended himself : " Tom Hammond feels bad about the attack on him . He says he played at Hyde Park for three years , and that Hyde Park refused to allow any man to play who was back in his work . He admits he left there in the junior year . He admits he worked up under a tutor to enter here , and says he had to pass a stiff examination to get in . He says his work in his classes now and in summer school will indicate the sincerity of his purpose . " Michigan students were reported to be " more indignant at the attack on Hammond than at anything else in Jordan ' s article , " noting that " Tom comes from one of the best families in Chicago , is a member of the D . K . E . fraternity here , and is considered one of the team ' s most upright men . " The " Michigan Alumnus " also defended Hammond : " Mr . Hammond , it is said , was enticed away from school and admitted into the University because he was an athlete . I have the word of as truthful a man as walks , who knew the circumstances of his coming here , that Mr . Hammond was not enticed away from school , and I know of my own knowledge that the fact of his being an athlete did not facilitate his admission to college . It is impossible here to substantiate with proofs the statement that I have here made about Mr . Hammond ' s case . Possibly my assertion is at least as valuable as that of somebody who does not know the facts . " At the end of the 1905 season , Hammond was selected as a first - team All - Western player and was also selected by Walter Camp as a third - team All - American . In selecting Hammond as a first - team All - Western halfback , the " Chicago Daily Tribune " wrote : " Tom Hammond has earned the place as a halfback alone , but adds to that a valuable quantity in his ability to kick from placement and to boot out extra points after a touchdown . He is needed to turn touchdowns into goals as well as to gain ground in his irresistible tackle smashes . " Yost later called Hammond " one of the best offensive and defensive fullbacks I have ever seen . " According to Yost , Hammond " never took time out and never was hurt . " Hammond always played without protective padding saying , " I want them to feel my bones . " Michigan ' s trainer Keene Fitzpatrick required Hammond to wear pads in practice , but Hammond discarded them " when it came to actual combat . " Yost later recalled Hammond ' s performance in the 1903 Ohio State game : " I ' ll never forget Tom in the 1903 Ohio State Game . They were leading , 6 to 5 , at the half , and Tom couldn ' t rest . He ripped them to pieces the second half and led Michigan to a 31 to 6 victory . " " The Washington Post " called Hammond " one of the best all around players who ever wore a Michigan uniform . " Mississippi . In May 1906 , Hammond was hired as the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels football team . He began practice with the team on September 15 , 1906 , and Atlanta ' s " The Constitution " reported at the time that " the squad of candidates " that turned out for Hammond ' s team was " decidedly small , " and " the new material in sight right now is nothing to be proud of . " Accordingly , the Atlanta paper noted that " those who have entertained enthusiastic hopes for a successful eleven this season are somewhat disappointed to date . " Hammond spent the first two weeks with the team " drilling them daily in the elementary part of the game and impressing on them the importance of the new rules , " which included legalization of the forward pass . Hammond led the Ole Miss team to a 4 – 2 record in 1906 , including wins over LSU ( 9 – 0 ) , Tulane ( 17 – 0 ) and Mississippi State ( 29 – 5 ) . One of the team ' s two losses came against Vanderbilt , coached by Hammond ' s former University of Michigan teammate , Dan McGugin . Whiting Corporation . In 1907 , Hammond married Barbara Whiting and became purchasing agent for the Whiting Foundry Equipment Company , known after 1920 as Whiting Corporation . Hammond spent his career with the Whiting Corporation , in time becoming its general manager , president and chairman of the board . The company was founded in 1884 by Hammond ' s father - in - law , John Hill Whiting , and moved to Harvey , Illinois , in 1893 . The company is a manufacturer of heavy equipment , including cranes and lifting equipment . World War I and military service . Prior to World War I , Hammond was a member of the Illinois National Guard . When the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917 , Hammond was a first lieutenant of field artillery in the National Guard . He served for two years in the U . S . Army during and after the war . After several months serving on the Mexican border , Hammond was deployed to France as part of the 42nd Infantry Division , the famed " Rainbow Division . " He was promoted from captain to major and eventually achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel . He was placed in command of the First Battalion of the 149th Field Artillery Regiment and participated in the final rush of American forces in the Meuse - Argonne Offensive . Hammond left his command while serving in Germany in January 1919 and returned to civilian life in Chicago in March 1919 . In an interview with the " Chicago Daily Tribune " , Hammond said the Germans feared the Americans , because they were " fighting all the time . " He noted , " You can be assured that there was no ' gentlemanly agreement ' with the 149th . They fought . That tells the whole story . " At the end of World War I , Hammond returned to the Illinois National Guard . He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in 1921 and Brigadier General in 1931 . In 1932 , he was recognized as Brigadier General in the U . S . Army Reserves . Politics and civic work . Beginning in 1923 and continuing until at least 1933 , Hammond was also a member of University of Michigan Board in Control of Athletics . Hammond served as the president of the Illinois Manufacturers ' Association for the first several months of 1933 . He resigned the position in July 1933 to serve in the Franklin Roosevelt administration as the executive director of the emergency re - employment campaign of the National Recovery Administration ( " NRA " ) . Hammond resigned from his NRA position in November 1933 . Immediately before his resignation , it was reported that Hammond disagreed with the administration ' s policy of giving powers to NRA boards that would weaken industry ' s self government . On the day Hammond ' s resignation was announced , fellow Chicago industrialist J . L . Kraft of Kraft Cheese Corp . stated that the NRA was run by " hairbrained professors , most of them with communistic tendencies who could not successfully operate a peanut stand . " While initially denying any difference of opinion with the NRA , Hammond later stated that he found the economic principles of the New Deal to be incompatible with his own , commenting that NRA means " Nuts Run America . " In November 1935 , Hammond was selected to serve a second term as president of the Illinois Manufacturers Association for the year 1936 . He was also elected to the Illinois Bell board of directors in 1937 . In 1940 , Hammond was appointed chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee , the Republican Party ' s fund - raising organization in Illinois . In December 1940 , Hammond was also appointed chairman of the Chicago chapter of the America First Committee , an organization opposed to U . S . intervention in the war in Europe . Hammond said at the time , " Our purpose is to marshal public opinion behind the committee ' s announced program of building an impregnable defense for America and giving expression to public sentiment for keeping America out of the European war . " In January 1942 , following the United States ' entry into World War II , Hammond resigned his positions as president and director of Whiting Corporation to devote his full efforts to the work of the Chicago ordnance district . He was named chief of the Chicago district in August 1942 , and was charged with facilitating the output of war material by Chicago factories and working as a liaison between private industry and the military . In May 1944 , Hammond was given an award by Lt . Gen . B . B . Somervell in recognition of " outstanding contributions to the operations of the Chicago ordnance district . " The citation stated : " Thru Gen . Hammond ' s constant attention to duty , his resourcefulness and his sound judgment as head of the Chicago ordnance district , and thru his extraordinary insight into industrial capacities and adaptabilities , he has rendered valuable service to the war effort of his country . " Hammond brothers . Hammond had four brothers , each of whom were amateur athletes . His older brother , John S . Hammond , played football at the University of Chicago , was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation . Brother Harry S . Hammond played football with Thomas at Michigan . The other two brothers were Robert Hammond and Herrick Hammond . Death . Hammond died at his home on Chicago ' s Lake Shore Drive ( No . 1448 ) in June 1950 at age 66 . He underwent surgery in early February 1950 and traveled to California following the operation . He returned to Chicago when his condition failed to improve . He was survived by his wife , the former Barbara Whiting , and their two sons , Stevens Hill Hammond and Thomas Lyman Hammond . His funeral was held at St . Chrysostom ' s Episcopal Church in Chicago .