was a college football, basketball, and baseball player and coach as well as an attorney.

[2] Hamilton was an All-Southern end for the first years of Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams.

[3] He stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) and weighed 164 pounds (74 kg).

Hamilton coached the Vanderbilt basketball squad in 1903–1904 and 1908–09 for a combined record of 17–5.

[5][6] Hamilton was the first to meet McGugin in Nashville, and has his law office next to his.