Harry S . Hammond Harry Stevens Hammond ( November 13 , 1884 – June 9 , 1960 ) was an American football player and businessman . He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1904 to 1907 . He later had a career in business with the Pressed Steel Car Company and the National Tube Co . Early years . Hammond was born in Crown Point , New York in November 1884 . 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 . Hammond ' s father , Charles Lyman Hammond , was a New York native , a graduate of the United States Military Academy , and a real estate businessman . His mother , Mary Electra ( Stevens ) Hammond , was a Vermont native . At the time of the 1900 United States Census , Hammond lived in Chicago with his parents , four brothers , John ( born December 1880 ) , Charles H . ( born August 1882 ) , Thomas S . ( born October 1883 ) , and Robert ( born February 1889 ) , and two servants . He attended the public schools in Chicago . Hammond ' s four brothers each became 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 Thomas S . Hammond , also played football for Michigan . University of Michigan . Hammond enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1903 . He played on the All - Freshman football team in 1903 before joining the varsity team as a sophomore . He played for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1904 to 1907 and was one of the leading scorers on the 1904 and 1905 " Point - a - Minute " football team s . He played at the halfback , fullback and end positions . The 1906 University of Michigan yearbook noted : " No better exhibition of pluck was ever shown than his work in the Wisconsin game . Playing without a headgear , he dived headlong int the Badgers ' interference time after time , breaking it up and enabling Tom to get the man with the ball . The manner in which he and Garrels outplayed the Chicago ends in the closing game was one of the redeeming feature [ sic ] of that contest . He repeatedly tackled the dreaded [ Walter ] Eckersall for losses or forced him to run out of bounds . While not a spectacular player , Hammond ' s courage and cool make him one of the most valuable players on the 1905 eleven . " Hammond was also a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Michigan . Hammond graduated from the University of Michigan with a mechanical engineering degree in 1908 . Later years and family . Hammond worked for several months after receiving his degree for the Kenwood Bridge Co . in Chicago . In 1908 , he became associated with the Pressed Steel Car Co . of Pittsburgh . He worked for the latter company as a draftsman , estimator and sales agent at least into the 1920s . At the time of the 1910 United States Census , he was living in Chicago with his parents and working as a sales agent for a steel car company . Hammond married Helen Hoffstot at Port Washington , New York , in June 1917 . At the time of the 1920 United States Census , Hammond was living in Manhattan with his wife Helen and their son Harry S . Hammond , Jr . His occupation was listed as a salesman for pressed cars . In a draft registration card dated September 1918 , Hammond indicated that hew was a manger for the Pressed Steel Car Co . in Philadelphia . At the time of the 1930 United States Census , Hammond was living in Garden City , New York with his wife Helen , their three children ( Harry S . Hammond , Jr . , Frank H . Hammond and Anne Hammond ) , and two servants . His occupation was listed as a sales agent for street cars . During the 1930s , Hammond was associated with the gas industry business of National Tube Co . , a subsidiary and later division of United States Steel Corp . Hammond died in Westport , Connecticut in June 1960 .