Sanford B. Hunt, Editor, Writer & Capt. Cornel Football Team 1903. FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES OF MARCH 31,1943. --Sanford B. Hunt, associate editor and member of the board of The Newark Sunday Call, died early this morning in the Presbyterian Hospital, Newark (NJ). He had been ill since November, when he underwent an operation. He was 62 years old. Mr. Hunt was born in Irvington, N.J., the son of William Tallmadge Hunt and Lucy Bardine Southworth Hunt. His father for many years before his death in 1916 was editor-in-chief of The Sunday Call, a post also held by Sanford's brother, the late William Southworth Hunt. The family moved to Newark in 1888, making their home in Roseville, and went to Chatham in 1891. Mr. Hunt attended ST. George's Hall in Summit, was graduated from ST. Paul's School, Garden City L. I. in 1900 and entered the College of Engineering, class of '04. He played on the Cornell football team from 1900 to 1903, being elected captain in his senior year. That was before the game was opened up with the forward pass. He was chosen as guard on the All-America team by Casper Whitney in 1901, and Walter Campbell. At Cornell Mr. Hunt was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity and the Quill and Dagger society. He left college before he would have been graduated in 1904 and went to work in a lumber camp in British Columbia returning in 1905 to help build Lake Carnegie at Princeton and engage in dock construction in Harrison, Long Island City and Montreal. He went back west in 1907 as a mining engineer in Utah and Nevada and continued his mining and surveying work in 1910 and 1911 in British Colombia and Alaska. In the autumn of both years he was assistant football coach at the University of Oregon. Mr. Hunt returned to Newark in 1912 to enter newspaper work until retirement in 1924 when the family moved to California.. He and his wife, late May Allen (Chambers) Hunt were parents of Col. Sanford B. Hunt USMC, Captain William T. Hunt USN and genealogist the late Barbara (Hunt) Colegrove of Salem OR. From: "SANFORD B HUNT" Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:20:07 -0500