Harry LeGore Harry William LeGore ( August 1 , 1894 – June 7 , 1956 ) was an American football and baseball player , Maryland state legislator and businessman . Biography . Early years . LeGore was born in Frederick County , Maryland . He was a son of the James William LeGore . His father founded the LeGore Lime Company in 1861 and built the LeGore Bridge near Woodsboro , Maryland . LeGore attended the Tome School , Mercersburg Academy and Lafayette University . Yale . LeGore enrolled at Yale University where he played for the school ' s football , baseball and basketball teams and was a member of Skull and Bones . In football , LeGore played halfback and fullback . He also handled punting duties and reportedly had a 65 - yard average . American sports writer Grantland Rice once wrote that he wouldn ' t trade LeGore for Red Grange and added : " Harry never played a poor game in his life . He was always a competitor first , last and always — and always had a little more when the chips were down . " In 1914 , LeGore was the starting fullback for a Yale football team that compiled a 7 - 2 record and defeated Notre Dame 28 - 0 , ending Notre Dame ' s 27 - game win streak . Knute Rockne later wrote in his autobiography : " I sat on the sideline at New Haven that Saturday and saw a good Yale team captained by Bud Talbott with a crack halfback named Harry LeGore leading the attack . They made Notre Dame look like a high school squad . " At the end of the 1914 season , LeGore was selected as a first - team All - American by International News Service sports editor Frank G . Menke , and as a second - team All - American by Walter Camp for Collier ' s Weekly and Walter Eckersall , of the Chicago Tribune . LeGore also played shortstop for the Yale baseball team . In 1915 , LeGore was ruled permanently ineligible to complete in college athletics after it was found that his food and lodging had been paid while playing summer baseball . In 1916 , LeGore ' s eligibility was restored . The Yale football team in 1915 had won only four games without LeGore in the lineup . With LeGore back in the lineup , the 1916 team went 8 - 1 . A syndicated newspaper story about LeGore ' s return to Yale stated : " Harry Legore is the real shining light of the Eli football team , there isn ' t any doubt about that . Legore is the star , with a big ' S . ' A couple of years ago Legore made a name for himself as an end runner and was the man who struck more terror to the hearts of ' Old Eli ' s opponents than any other man on the team . In the summer Legore played baseball , and someone said it was professional baseball with the result that Legore was barred from football as a ' professional . ' Quite a sensation was created , but this year Legore was restored and it has been a mighty good thing for Yale that he was . And with his restoration to eligibility as an amateur athlete came the job of fullback on the Yale eleven . " At the end of the 1916 season , LeGore was selected as a second - team All - American by Walter Camp for Collier ' s Weekly , International News Service , Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune , and Paul Purman , noted sports writer whose All - American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States , and University of Michigan football coach Fielding H . Yost . In selecting LeGore as an All - American , Walter Camp called him " one of the nation ' s greatest athletes . " World War I . With the entry of the United States into World War I , LeGore was one of ten Yale students recommended by the President of Yale for commissions in the United States Marine Corps . LeGore served overseas for two years with the Second Division . Business and political career . After his discharge from the Marines , LeGore worked for the LeGore Lime Company . In 1930 , LeGore was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates . In 1934 , he was elected to the Maryland State Senate . In 1936 , he made an unsuccessful run for a seat in the U . S . House of Representatives . LeGore eventually became president of the LeGore Lime Company and also served as a director of the Potomac Edison Company . Posthumous honors . In 1977 , LeGore was inducted into Maryland ' s Alvin G . Quinn Memorial Sports Hall of Fame . In 1999 , " The News - Post " in Maryland picked LeGore as one of the Top 25 most significant sports figures in the history of Frederick County .