| Profile | |
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| Position | Fullback |
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| College | Texas A&M (1926–1928) |
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Hershel E. Burgess was a college football player. He was a prominent running back for the Texas A&M Aggies, [1] [2] [3] a star on the national champion 1927 team. [4] He was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975. [5] There is a physics chair at Texas A&M named in his honor, the Hershel E. Burgess '29 Chair in Physics. [6]