Biographical details | |
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Born | Petersburg, Virginia, U.S. | November 11, 1897
Died | September 11, 1979 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | (aged 81)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1919 | Virginia Union |
1920–1921 | NYU |
Position(s) | Quarterback, halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1919–1920 | Virginia Union |
1921–1922 | Shaw |
1923–1925 | Prairie View State |
1926–1942 | Virginia Union |
Basketball | |
?–1950 | Virginia Union |
Baseball | |
1925 | Prairie View A&M |
? | Virginia Union |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1926–1950 | Virginia Union |
Henry Boyd Hucles Jr. (November 11, 1897 – September 11, 1979) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Union University from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 to 1942 and at Prairie View A&M University from 1923 to 1925. Hucles was also the athletic director at Virginia Union from 1926 to 1950.[1] His son, Henry B. Hucles III, became a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island.[2]
He was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.