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| Date of birth: November 27, 1922 | |
| Place of birth: Thomaston, Georgia | |
| Date of death: September 15, 1992 (aged 69) | |
| Place of death: Lakeland, Florida | |
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| College: Georgia Tech | |
| NFL Draft: 1943 / Round: 26 / Pick: 243 | |
| No regular season or postseason appearances | |
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*Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1943)*
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Harvey Boland Hardy (November 27, 1922 – September 15, 1992[1]) was an American football player who played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team, was a consensus All-American, and was an MVP of the 1943 Cotton Bowl Classic.[2][3]
Hardy was selected as the 243rd pick of the 1943 NFL Draft (round 26, pick 3) by the Brooklyn Dodgers but did not play professionally.[4] He was inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1961.[5] He was elected to the Alabama Community College Conference Hall of Fame in 1990.[6]
Hardy was in the Southeastern Conference Football Officials Association from 1957 to 1981, and officiated 23 bowl games.[6]
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- ↑ "Notebook". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. September 17, 1992. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19920917&id=RzQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B88EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2923,577686. Retrieved March 19, 2010.
- ↑ "Georgia Tech All-Time Team". Athlon Sports. http://www.athlonsports.com/college-football/4394/georgia-tech-all-time-team. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ↑ "1943 Cotton Bowl: Texas 14, Georgia Tech 7". mackbrown-texasfootball.com. http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=36&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=707&change_well_id=2. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ↑ "1943 NFL Player Draft". databaseFootball.com. http://www.databasefootball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1943&lg=NFL. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ↑ "Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame". RamblinWreck.com. Georgia Tech Athletic Association. http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/fame/halloffame.html. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Harvey Boland Hardy - 1990". Alabama Community College Conference. acccsports.org. http://www.acccsports.org/acccpages/hofmember/18.jsp. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
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