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HILLIS HUME GRADUATED 1940 CHARTER INDUCTEE 1967
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HILLIS HUME GRADUATED 1940 CHARTER INDUCTEE 1967
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HILLIS HUME AHS Class of 1940
Hillis Hume took the Alliance High School nickname to heart, serving 20 years as an aviator and officer in the US Navy. He earned decorations in World War II and the Korean War. He was just as serious about athletics, finding therein the “molding of character, physical and mental development and formation of permanent and sincere friendships.” An All-Ohio back for AHS, Hilly Hume won three letters in football where he scored 144 points his junior year and 138 as a senior, when he was the United Press pick as Ohio’s Most Valuable Player. He won three letters in basketball and one in track, plus winning the 1939 City Junior Singles tennis championship. At the US Naval Academy, he was a football All-American honorable mention and All-East in 1943 and was a lacrosse All-American center in 1944, just his second year in the sport. Hume played for the 1946 All-Navy football champions at the Pensacola, Florida, Naval Flight School and was athletic director and coach of the 1956 champs from that same base. He returned to the Academy from 1949 to 1951 as an assistant coach and physical education instructor, retiring from the service in 1964. Appropriately, Hume is now executive director of Maryland’s Commission on Physical Fitness. |