Arnold Tucker
Arnold Tucker (born January 5, 1924 in Miami , Florida ) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force , a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (1947) and the winner of the James E. Sullivan Award in 1946 awarded as the best American amateur athlete (as a football player).
Life
After high school in Miami, where he was already an excellent football player, he played for one year (1943) for the University of Miami before he went to West Point and had three more years of qualification for the Army. There he won the national championship three times with the Army 1944-1946 and was appointed to the All-American team in 1945 and 1946. In 1945 and 1946 he was the brains of the successful team as quarterback . In 1947 he was also the team captain of the Army basketball team . In 2008 he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame . After training as a pilot and ending the war, he returned to West Point as a football instructor and coach before becoming Deputy Chief of Operations for the Fifth Air Force in Japan from 1968 to 1970 and Commanding Officer of the 16th Special Operations Squadron in Thailand in 1970. From 1971 to 1974 he was in charge of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Miami before retiring.
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) ; 2, pp. 47-50 . November 14, 2016
- ^ Arnold Tucker in the College Football Hall of Fame
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| SURNAME | Tucker, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami , Florida |