Hargrove Van de Graaff

Coleman Hargrove Van de Graaff (September 7, 1893 – January 2, 1938) was a college football player.

[1] Hargrove was born on September 7, 1893, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Circuit Judge Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff Sr. and Minnie Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff.

[2] He helped organize sports at Tuscaloosa High School with football, baseball, and track.

Van de Graaff, the inventor of the Van de Graaff generator which produces high voltages, was another brother.

Following a hard-fought scoreless tie with Georgia Tech in 1911, coach John Heisman declared that he had never seen a player "so thoroughly imbued with the true spirit of football as Hargrove Van de Graaff.