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LeRoy Franklin Abernethy (September 27, 1885 – November 9, 1959) was an American college football player from North Carolina. He played for North Carolina A&M from 1902–04 before transferring to the University of North Carolina for 1905.

NC State

1902–1904

Abernethy played first for North Carolina A&M, selected All-Southern by W. S. Kimberly in 1904.

University of North Carolina

Abernethy was a prominent fullback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina. He was selected for the position on an all-time Carolina football team of Dr. R. B. Lawson in 1934. On the all time team of Joel Whitaker he was noted as the "probably the best line plunger that has ever been."

1905

He was selected All-Southern by coach R. R. Brown of Washington and Lee University. A fullback did not score three touchdowns again for UNC until Mike Faulkerson in 1992.

Later life

By 1910, Abernethy was engaged in the hardware business in his hometown of Hickory.

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, originally named the War Emergency Cooperative Association. In 1941, he married Frieda Burnett Russell in 1941.

He died in an Asheville hospital in 1959 after suffering a heart attack at home.

References

1. ^ "Abernethy Rites Today". Asheville Citizen-Times. Asheville, North Carolina. November 11, 1959. p. 2.
2. North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998
3. "For All Southern Football Team". The Morning Post. December 11, 1904. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "The All-Southern Eleven". The Charlotte Observer. December 25, 1904. p. 11. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review. 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
6. Kemp Plummer Battle (1912). History of the University of North Carolina. p. 752.
7. "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Football". The Washington Post. February 18, 1906. p. 13. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Tech Coach Dislikes Rules For NFL Scouts". September 10, 1992. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
9. The Alumni Review. May 1914. p. 168.
10. 1910 United States Census
11. "Petroleum Carriers Associates". Retrieved July 15, 2017.
12. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011

• 1885 births
• 1959 deaths
• North Carolina Tar Heels football players
• American football fullbacks
• NC State Wolfpack football players
• All-Southern college football players
• Players of American football from Asheville, North Carolina
• People from Hickory, North Carolina