Peter Pund

{{Short description|American football player (1907–1987)}}

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{{Infobox college football player

| name = Peter Pund

| image = Peter Pund.jpg

| caption = Pund, "The Yellow Assassin", c. 1929

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|1|27}}

| birth_place = Augusta, Georgia, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=y|1987|10|17|1907|1|27}}

| death_place = Darien, Connecticut, U.S.

| school = Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

| class = 1928

| highschool=Richmond Academy

| major = Textile engineering

| currentnumber=15; 47; 71

| height_ft=6

| height_in=0

| weight_lb=182

| currentposition = Center

| pastschools =

| bowlgames =

| highlights =

|CFBHOF_id=1354

|CFBHOF_year=1963

}}

Henry Rudolph "Peter" Pund (January 27, 1907 – October 17, 1987) was an American college football player. He was elected to the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1958, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1977, and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1963.{{cite web |url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/fame/halloffame.html |title=Georgia Tech Hall of Fame |work=RamblinWreck.com |publisher=Georgia Tech Athletic Association |access-date=2007-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918200605/http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/fame/halloffame.html |archive-date=2011-09-18 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.gshf.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=50 |title=Henry R. "Peter" Pund |work=Inductees |publisher=Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum |access-date=2007-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081502/http://www.gshf.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=50 |archive-date=2007-09-28}}{{cite news |url=http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/sum02/technotes.html#article2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804184752/http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/sum02/technotes.html#article2 |archive-date=2007-08-04 |title=Rhino Named to Hall of Fame |work=Tech Topics |publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association |date=Summer 2002 |access-date=2007-08-11}}{{cite news |url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/050702aaa.html |title=Randy Rhino to Enter College Football Hall of Fame |work=RamblinWreck.com |publisher=Georgia Tech Athletic Association |date=2002-05-07 |access-date=2007-08-11}} Pund was never penalized.{{cite web |access-date=February 9, 2015 |title=Henry R. "Peter" Pund |url=http://georgiasportshalloffame.com/site/our-inductees/}} At Georgia Tech, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.The Blueprint (Georgia Tech Yearbook), 1929.

Biography

A native of Augusta,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qpif6-Z5o4C&pg=PA844|title=Atlanta and Environs|publisher=|isbn=9780820339047|last1=Garrett|first1=Franklin M.|date=March 2011}} Pund was captain of the national champion 1928 Golden Tornado. "I sat at Grant Field and saw a magnificent Notre Dame team suddenly recoil before the furious pounding of one man–Pund, center," said legendary coach Knute Rockne. "Nobody could stop him. I counted 20 scoring plays that this man ruined."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1uJoa43VOnAC&pg=PA30|title=Against All Odds|publisher=|isbn=9780547985381|last1=Stout|first1=Glenn|date=23 October 2012}} After the 1929 Rose Bowl, Pund called "Wrong way" Roy Riegels "the best center I have played against all year. He's a battler, and he never quit."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QqYZvro0tB8C&pg=PA30|title=The Rose Bowl|publisher=|isbn=9780738580586|last1=Turner|first1=Michelle L.|year=2010}}

Pund died September 17, 1987, in Darien, Connecticut. He was cremated. There is a marker for him at Magnolia Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.[https://www.augustachronicle.com/news/20181118/way-we-were-pund-was-center-of-dominant-georgia-tech-team Augusta Chronicle]

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