Hunter Kimball

American football player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican football player
PlacesUnited States of America
wasAmerican football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth14 July 1893, Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
Death29 May 1972Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi, USA (aged 78 years)
Star signCancer
Stats
Weight:175 lbs
Education
Mississippi State University
Sports Teams
Mississippi State Bulldogs football
The details

Biography

Hunter Hudson Kimball (July 14, 1893 – May 29, 1972) was a college football player and the first Executive Director of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission.

Mississippi State

Kimball was a prominent running back for the Mississippi A & M Aggies of Mississippi A & M University. His playing in the 1911 Egg Bowl, then his position was at end, was cited as 'superb' by the Commercial Appeal. That year Mississippi A & M was invited to its first postseason bowl game, the Bacardi Bowl in Havana, Cuba. He received the most votes of any All-Southern halfback in 1914. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.

Fish and Game Commission

He was the first Executive Director of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission, appointed to the position in 1932.

Family life

His son Hunter, Jr. was a casualty of the Korean War.

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