LeRoy Franklin Abernethy (September 27, 1885 – November 9, 1959) was an American college football player from North Carolina.
[1] Abernethy played first for North Carolina A&M, selected All-Southern by W. S. Kimberly in 1904.
"[6] He was selected All-Southern by coach R. R. Brown of Washington and Lee University.
[9][10] He later moved to Asheville, where he was a PurÖl distributor and then owner of the Hall-Sell Petroleum Carrier company.
During World War II, he helped organize Petroleum Carriers Associates, an emergency oil transport unit,[1] originally named the War Emergency Cooperative Association.