[6][7] Hardwick gained his greatest fame, however, playing for Percy Haughton's Harvard football teams from 1912 to 1914.

A vicious, tireless interferer, Hardwick was never happy as long as a single enemy remained standing.

[14] He briefly worked as an assistant coach at the United States Naval Academy, under Jonas Ingram.

[17] He served in the 105th Trench Mortar Battery in France (part of the 30th Infantry Division), participating at Messines Ridge, Verdun, St. Mihiel, the Argonne, and Woevre.

[4] He served as a volunteer policeman during the 1919 Boston police strike and was injured during the Scollay Square riot.

[20] In 1939, he became vice president of Tris Speaker's brand-new National Professional Indoor Baseball League, but it collapsed within a year.

[1] Their wedding, attended by 1,000 guests, was described as "a brilliant social event,"[7] and "the most sumptuous bridal that ever graced the Buzzard's Bay shore.

[4] In September 1948, Hardwick married Manuela De Zanone-Poma, formerly of Barcelona, Spain, and Cannes, France.

[4] In June 1949, Hardwick died of a heart attack while clamming at Church's Beach on Cuttyhunk Island.

[24]Rice described Hardwick as "a big, fine-looking aristocrat from blue-blood stock," who "loved combat—body contact at crushing force—a fight to the finish."

[8] Michigan football coach Fielding Yost named Hardwick to his all-time All-American team in 1920.

[26] Columnist Grantland Rice called Hardwick "dynamite on the football field" and selected him years later as one of the five greatest competitors he had ever seen, along with Ty Cobb, Walter Hagen and Jack Dempsey.