Henry B. Hucles

Henry B. Hucles
Biographical details
Born(1897-11-11)November 11, 1897
Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.
DiedSeptember 11, 1979(1979-09-11) (aged 81)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1919Virginia Union
1920–1921NYU
Position(s)Quarterback, halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919–1920Virginia Union
1921–1922Shaw
1923–1925Prairie View State
1926–1942Virginia Union
Basketball
?–1950Virginia Union
Baseball
1925Prairie View A&M
?Virginia Union
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1926–1950Virginia 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.

  1. ^ "Records of the Athletic Department". Virginia Union University. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
  2. ^ Genealogy site