{"id":1496,"date":"2018-06-04T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:35:15","slug":"hill-harlon-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"HILL, HARLON, 1932-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professional football player. Born&#8211; May 4, 1932, Killen,\u00a0Lauderdale Co. Parents&#8211;Frank Beatrice and Bessie Simpson Hill.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Virginia Ann Sellers.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. Education&#8211; Florence State College, B.S. (1953), and M. A. (1969)\u00a0Played football with Chicago Bears, 1954-1961; Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions, 1962. NFL Rookie of the Year, 1954; Jim Thorpe Trophy, 1955; Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, 1976. After retirement, earned M.A.;\u00a0worked as\u00a0assistant coach and alumni director, University of North Alabama; taught and coached at Brooks High School. The Harlon Hill Trophy, named in his honor, is awarded annually to the nation&#8217;s best NCAA Division II football player. Died March 21, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Football, 1974; Victory after the Game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victory after the Game; the Harlon Hill Story. Florence, Ala.; Popular Books, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professional football player. Born&#8211; May 4, 1932, Killen,\u00a0Lauderdale Co. Parents&#8211;Frank Beatrice and Bessie Simpson Hill.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Virginia Ann Sellers.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. Education&#8211; Florence State College, B.S. (1953), and M. A. (1969)\u00a0Played football with Chicago Bears, 1954-1961; Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions, 1962. NFL Rookie of the Year, 1954; Jim Thorpe Trophy, 1955; Alabama Sports Hall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}