Darold Jenkins
{{Short description|American college football player (1919–1986)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
| name = Darold Jenkins
| image =
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| pastschools =
- Missouri (1939–1941)
| currentnumber = 42
| currentposition = Center
| bowlgames =
| highschool = Higginsville
| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|6|6|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Pettis County, Missouri, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|9|16|1919|6|6|mf=y}}
| death_place = Independence, Missouri, U.S.
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
| weight_lb = 190
| highlights =
- Consensus All-American (1941)
- First-team All-Big Six (1941)
- Second-team All-Big Six (1940)
- Missouri Tigers No. 42 retired
| CFBHOF_id = 1690
| CFBHOF_year = 1976
}}
Darold Jenkins (June 6, 1919 – September 16, 1986) was an American college football center. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976.{{College Football HoF|id=1690|name=Darold Jenkins|accessdate=4 April 2012}}
Biography
Jenkins first joined Don Faurot's Missouri Tigers as a fullback, spending most of his time on the bench.{{cite news|last=Chamberlain|first=Charles|title=Army to Get M.U. All-America Center|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19411212&id=pmZeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HmENAAAAIBAJ&pg=2483,3598063|accessdate=4 April 2012|newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World|date=December 12, 1941}} By mid way through his junior year, Jenkins had taken over as the starting center and went on to earn All Big Six Conference honors that season.{{cite web|title=Darold Jenkins|url=http://www.mutigers.com/genrel/jenkins_darold00.html|publisher=mutigers.com|accessdate=4 April 2012}}
In 1941, as a senior, Jenkins captained Missouri to a Big Six Conference Championship and an appearance in the Sugar Bowl against the Fordham Rams. Jenkins again earned All Big Six Conference honors and became the first Tiger to earn consensus All-America honors.
After college, Jenkins was a bomber pilot in World War II. Flying his 27th mission, he was shot down and spent 17 months in a Nazi Germany POW camp.
Upon his discharge from the military, Jenkins went to law school, becoming a practicing attorney in 1952, eventually working for the Missouri State Highway Commission. He died September 16, 1986.
Legacy
Faurot said of Jenkins, "I would put him on my all-time Missouri team. He is fine on the field and off. Works just as hard in practices as in a game. And he is just as good on offense as defense. You must remember the center is a main cog in our quick breaking T formation."
Jenkins was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1971,{{cite web|title=Darold Jenkins |url=http://www.mosportshalloffame.com/inductee_detail/Darold+Jenkins/293 |publisher=Missouri Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=4 April 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976, and was a member of the inaugural class inducted into the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1990.
Jenkins was also named to the Missouri All-Homecoming Centennial Team in 2011.{{cite news|last=Wilkins |first=Marcus |title=All-Homecoming Centennial Team |url=http://mizzoumag.missouri.edu/2011-Fall/features/all-homecoming-team/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721024637/http://mizzoumag.missouri.edu/2011-Fall/features/all-homecoming-team/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-21 |accessdate=4 April 2012 |newspaper=Mizzou Magazine |date=Fall 2011 }}
References
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External links
- {{College Football HoF|id=1690}}
- [http://www.mutigers.com/genrel/jenkins_darold00.html Missouri Tigers profile]
{{1941 College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
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Category:All-American college football players
Category:Missouri Tigers football players
Category:College Football Hall of Fame inductees
Category:United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II