George L. Hicks
{{Short description|American football player and colonel (1871–1956)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
|name=George L. Hicks
|birth_date={{birth date|1871|4|4}}
|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1956|9|3|1871|4|4}}
|currentposition=Tackle
|pastschools=Virginia (1892–1894)
|class=Graduate
|weight_lb=173
|school=Virginia Cavaliers
|highlights=*Southern championship (1892, 1893, 1894)
}}
George Luther Hicks (April 4, 1871 – September 3, 1956)[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26948897/george-luther-hicks George Luther Hicks] findagrave.com was a college football player and colonel in the U. S. Army.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2yJjJZF7lOYC&pg=PA322-IA266|page=224|title=Liaison: The Courier of the Big Gun Corps|year=1918}} He served in the Spanish American War and World War I.[https://wolfensberger.org/pages/library/books/Maryland/historyofdorches00jone.pdf History of Dorchester County, Maryland, p. 317]
Biography
George Luther Hicks was a son of former Confederate field surgeon George L. Hicks, Sr. and Nancy Hicks, the daughter of Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks.https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Dorchester/D-532.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfVGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA270|title=JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association|first=American Medical|last=Association|date=May 7, 1902|publisher=American Medical Association|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uB-gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA389|title=Maryland Medical Journal|date=May 7, 1902|publisher=Medical Journal Company|via=Google Books}} He married Mabel Mullen.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2k0-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA13-PA11|title=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times|date=May 7, 1906|via=Google Books}}
=University of Virginia=
Hicks was a prominent tackle for the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia.{{cite news|title=The Great Game To-Day|page=2|date=November 29, 1894|work=The Times}}{{cite journal|journal=Virginia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-FKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22col+george+l+hicks%22+virginia+football|volume=36|year=1947|title=Col George L. Hicks|page=78}} The school claims a Southern championship every year he played.{{cite web|url=http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/champs/Southern.txt|title=Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation}} He was selected for an All-Southern team in 1895.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1986569//|work=The Daily Tar Heel|title=[No title]|via=Newspapers.com|date=April 18, 1896|page=4|accessdate=March 14, 2015}} {{Open access}}
References
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{{1895 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
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Category:American football tackles
Category:Virginia Cavaliers football players
Category:19th-century players of American football