Leonard Hilty

{{Short description|American football player (1896–1978)}}

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|name=Leonard Hilty

|image=Leonard F. Hilty.png

|image_size=155

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|caption=Hilty from The Owl (1918)

|currentposition=Tackle

|birth_date={{Birth date|1896|9|5|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1978|1|9|1896|9|5|mf=y}}

|death_place=Brenham, Texas, U.S.

|currentnumber=

|school=Pittsburgh Panthers

|pastschools=Pitt (1918)

|highschool=Peabody

|highlights=

• National champion (1918)
• Consensus All-American (1918)

}}

Leonard Franklin Hilty (September 5, 1896 – January 9, 1978) was an American football player. He played college football for the University of Pittsburgh and was a consensus selection at the tackle position on the 1918 College Football All-America Team.

Hilty was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Peabody High School. He enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.The Owl (University of Pittsburgh yearbook), 1918, p. 129. He was also a member of the Pittsburgh Panthers football team and was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1918.{{cite web|title=2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2014|accessdate=August 16, 2014|page=4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf}}

After graduating from Pitt, Hilty moved to Houston, Texas, by 1920. He lived there with his wife, a Texas native, and their two children. He was employed for many years as a salesman for a paper company, L.S. Bosworth Co.1930 U.S. Census entry for Leonard Hilty, age 33, born in Penn., and family. Census Place: Houston, Harris, Texas; Roll: 2348; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 0087; Image: 312.0; FHL microfilm: 2342082. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line].1940 U.S. Census entry for Leonard Hilty, age 44, born in Penn., and family. Census Place: West University Place, Harris, Texas; Roll: T627_4052; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 101-3J. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line].Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Leonard Franklin Hilty, born September 5, 1896, at Pittsburgh, PA. Hilty died in 1978 at Brenham, Texas, at age 81.Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 [database on-line]. Leonard Franklin Hilty, born 5 Sep 1896 in Pennsylvania, died 9 Jan 1978, at Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA.