Harold White (American football)

Harold M. "Babe" White (March 22, 1894 – May 4, 1973) was an All-American football player, Olympic athlete, wartime intelligence agent, and big game hunter.

[citation needed] played college football for Syracuse University.

At 6 feet, 6 inches in height and 273 pounds, White was the largest American football player of his time.

He was also a big-game hunter who killed animals, including tigers and elephants, in India and Africa and then donated the preserved remains to the Field Museum in Chicago and that Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

He died at the Archbold Memorial Hosepital in Thomasville after an extended illness in 1973 at age 79.