Walter H. Trumbull, Jr. ( – ) was an American football

American football

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 player. He attended Middlesex School

Middlesex School

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 in Concord, Massachusetts

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 before enrolling at Harvard University

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. He played at the tackle

Tackle (American football)

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 and center

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 positions for Percy Haughton

Percy Haughton

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's Harvard Crimson

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 football from 1912 to 1914. During Trumbull's three years as a starter for Harvard, the football team did not lose a single game compiling records of 9–0 in 1912, 9–0 in 1913, and 7–0–2 in 1914. In December 1913, he placed second to Charles Brickley

Charles Brickley

Charles Edward Brickley was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Johns Hopkins University in 1915, at Boston College from 1916 to 1917, and at Fordham University in 1920 with Joseph DuMoe as co-coach, compiling a career college football record of 22–9...

 in voting among his teammates for the position of captain of the 1914 team. Trumbull was selected as a first-team All-American at the tackle position in 1914. During World War I, Trumbull was placed in charge of motion picture work for the Army and Navy YMCA in France. He later served as the president of the Harvard Club and national vice-chairman of Harvard Divinity School's endowment fund drive.