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LeRoy Abernethy
LeRoy Franklin Abernethy (September 27, 1885 – November 9, 1959) was an American college football player from North Carolina. He played for North Carolina A&M from 1902–04 before transferring to the University of North Carolina for 1905.[1] NC State1902–1904Abernethy played first for North Carolina A&M, selected All-Southern by W. S. Kimberly in 1904.[3][4] University of North CarolinaAbernethy was a prominent fullback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina. He was selected for the position on an all-time Carolina football team of Dr. R. B. Lawson in 1934.[5] On the all time team of Joel Whitaker he was noted as the "probably the best line plunger that has ever been."[6] 1905He was selected All-Southern by coach R. R. Brown of Washington and Lee University.[7] A fullback did not score three touchdowns again for UNC until Mike Faulkerson in 1992.[8] Later lifeBy 1910, Abernethy was engaged in the hardware business in his hometown of Hickory.[9][10] He later moved to Asheville, where he was a PurÖl distributor and then owner of the Hall-Sell Petroleum Carrier company. During World War II, he helped organize Petroleum Carriers Associates, an emergency oil transport unit,[1] originally named the War Emergency Cooperative Association.[11] In 1941, he married Frieda Burnett Russell in 1941.[12] He died in an Asheville hospital in 1959 after suffering a heart attack at home.[1] References
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