Ellery Channing Huntington Jr. (March 11, 1893 – July 2, 1987) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a quarterback at Colgate University.[1] Huntington also served as the 19th head football coach at Colgate, holding that position for three seasons, from 1919 until 1921 and compiling a record of 10–10–5. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. After his coaching career, Huntington was a lawyer, corporate executive, and military officer during World War II.

Athletics

Huntington was the son of Ellery Huntington Sr., longtime athletic director at Colgate.[2] He played quarterback at Colgate from 1910 to 1913 and was named to Walter Camp's 1913 All-America Team.[3] He was captain of the 1913–14 Colgate men's basketball team and was a member of the school's track team.[4]

Coaching

Huntington was an assistant at Colgate under Laurence Bankart in 1915 and 1916 and was chosen to succeed him as head coach in 1917.[5] However, he entered the United States Army before the season began.[6]

In 1919, Bankart was once again named Colgate's head coach and Huntington returned as his assistant. However, Bankart was head coach in name only, with Huntington doing much of the work. In 1920, Huntington officially became head coach.[7] He returned in 1921, but announced at the end of the season that he would be unable to return the following year. He was succeeded by Dick Harlow.[8]

World War I

Huntington entered the officers' training camp at Plattsburgh in May 1917. He was commissioned a captain in the field artillery and assigned to Battery C of the 307th Field Artillery Regiment, 78th Infantry Division on August 15, 1917.[9] He was stationed at Fort Dix and played quarterback for the 1917 Camp Dix football team.[10] He was sent to France on May 8, 1918 and saw action in the Meuse–Argonne offensive. He returned to the United States on March 12, 1919 and was discharged five days later.[9]

Personal life

Huntington was the nephew of Boston University president William Edwards Huntington and grandnephew of clergyman Frederic Dan Huntington.[11]

From 1917 to 1929, Huntington was married to Hester Gibson, daughter of Robert W. Gibson.[12][13][14] The sister-in-law of Communist Party USA leader Robert Minor, she hosted meetings of the American League Against War and Fascism and provided bail for party chairman Earl Browder.[15] They had two daughters, Hester and Susan, and one son, Ellery III. Elerey III was killed in action in World War II.[16] Susan Huntington was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and the wife of actors Warren Stevens and Don Hanmer.[17]

While working for the OSS, Huntington met Helen Catherine DuBois, a secretary to the OSS intelligence chief in Algiers. They married in 1946 and had one son.[18]

Business career

Huntington graduated from Harvard Law School in 1917.[9] He was a partner in the New York City law firm of Satterlee & Canfield. In 1933, he and another partner, David M. Milton, acquired control of the Equity Corporation from Wallace Groves.[19] Huntington was an officer and director of the Equity Corporation of New York until 1941.[20] He was also president of National Postal Meter Company.[21]

Huntington returned to Equity Corporation in 1945 as president.[22] He then served as chairman until his retirement in 1958.[20] He also served as a director of the Morris Plan Banks, Bell Aircraft, and United Industrial Corporation.[23][24][25]

World War II

Huntington knew Office of Strategic Services head William J. Donovan from playing squash and on May 8, 1942, Huntington was named chief of the OSS's newly established Security Branch. His first assignment was supervising Amy Elizabeth Thorpe and Charles Emanuel Brousse's theft of Vichy France's naval code books from a safe in a locked and guarded room at the Wardman Park Hotel. Huntington also performed undercover work with agents in North Africa before Operation Torch.[18] In 1944, Huntington was named head of the American military mission in Yugoslavia.[26] He commanded a detachment of Army liaison officers posted to Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans and was tasked with informing the United States about the partisans' fight against the Axis occupation troops and arrange for supply drops and nightly air evacuation of the wounded.[20]

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Colgate (Independent) (1919–1921)
1919 Colgate 5–1–1
1920 Colgate 1–5–2
1921 Colgate 4–4–2
Colgate: 10–10–5
Total: 10–10–5

References

  1. ^ "Bankart Colgate Coach" (PDF). The New York Times. June 8, 1919. Retrieved December 21, 2008.
  2. ^ Leonard, Lank (February 9, 1920). "College Small on Map, But Mighty on Gridiron". The Day. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  3. ^ "Walter Camp's All=America Football Eleven". The Troy Northern Budget. December 21, 1913. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  4. ^ "Colgate Nine Coming". Boston Evening Transcript. April 6, 1914. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  5. ^ "Colgate Calls Huntington". The Post Express. March 7, 1917. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  6. ^ "McDevitt to Coach Colgate". The Pittsburgh Press. September 15, 1917. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  7. ^ "Big Elevens Make Shift In Football Coaches This Fall". The Deseret News. September 25, 1920. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  8. ^ "Harlow Will Coach Colgate Football Team Next Fall". The New York Times. February 4, 1922.
  9. ^ a b c Mead, Frederick (1921). Harvard's Military Record in the World War. Boston: The Harvard Alumni Association. p. 493. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  10. ^ "Dix Beats Devens". The Camp Dix News. November 24, 1917. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  11. ^ "Dr W. E. Huntington Is Dead At Newton". The Boston Globe. December 7, 1930.
  12. ^ "Today". St. Joseph Gazette. December 26, 1917. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  13. ^ "Bond Posted For Browder". Reading Eagle. October 21, 1939.
  14. ^ "Mosquito War Gets Under Way". The Norwalk Hour. June 12, 1930. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  15. ^ "Browder Bail Brings U. S. Quiz". The Norwalk Hour. October 25, 1939. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  16. ^ "E.C. Huntington 3D Dead". The New York Times. December 29, 1944.
  17. ^ "Miss Huntington Wed to Air Cadet". The New York Times. October 25, 1942.
  18. ^ a b McIntosh, Elizabeth (1998). Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Naval Institute Press. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  19. ^ Report on the Study and Investigation of the Work, Activities, Personnel and Functions of Protective and Reorganization Committees. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1938. p. 200. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  20. ^ a b c "Ellery Huntington Jr". The New York Times. July 6, 1987. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  21. ^ "Moves Head Office From West". The New York Times. February 6, 1941.
  22. ^ "Elected by Equity Corp". The New York Times. March 16, 1945.
  23. ^ "On Morris Plan Bank's Board". The New York Times. November 14, 1945.
  24. ^ "Two Join Bell Aircraft Board". The New York Times. January 13, 1950.
  25. ^ "Dissidents Win Majority Of 4 Seats on Board Of United Industrial". The Wall Street Journal. May 29, 1959.
  26. ^ "American Mission Sent to Tito". St. Petersburg Times. August 25, 1944. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
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