Emory J. Hyde
Emory J. Hyde (May 1879 – June 6, 1956) was an American college football player, coach, lawyer, and businessman. He played for the University of Michigan’s 1901 “Point-a-Minute” team, which went 11–0 and outscored opponents 550–0. He earned a law degree from Michigan in 1904.
Hyde coached football at Texas Christian University (TCU) from 1905 to 1907, finishing with a 10–11–2 record. He and Oliver W. Latham formed a law firm in Dallas in 1905. He announced his TCU hire in a Michigan Alumnus letter, noting that TCU was the only Christian church–affiliated school in the South and that he would start in September.
He married Jessie around 1905. They had a daughter, Frances, and a son, James. By 1910 they were in Chicago, where Hyde worked as a manager for a reporting agency. He spent much of his career with Retail Credit Co. (later Equifax), eventually becoming vice president in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and serving again as Chicago VP in 1931. He remarried to Agnes around 1929.
Hyde served as president of the University of Michigan Alumni Association from 1935 to 1938 and received the association’s Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1947. He moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1938 and died there on June 6, 1956.
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