Jack Turnbull

John Inglehart "Jack" Turnbull was an American lacrosse player and 1965 inductee into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He lends his name to the Jack Turnbull Award, given to the nation's best collegiate attackman.

Biography

Jack Turnbull was born on June 30, 1910, in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), where he was class president his senior year. He was the captain of Poly's 1926 lacrosse team and played on the football and basketball teams as well. At the age of 18, he performed at the playoffs for the 1928 Olympic games.

Turnbull attended Johns Hopkins University, where he played on the 1932 team. He graduated from Hopkins with a bachelor's degree in engineering after only three years. Turnbull was named an All-American 3 out of 3 years at Johns Hopkins, and is widely regarded as one of the best to ever play the game.cite web|url=http://www.lacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=216|title=Jack Turnbull bio|work=National Lacrosse Hall of Fame website|accessdate=2007-03-26]

He was captain of the U.S. lacrosse team during the 1932 Summer Olympics and remained active in sports as a member of the Mount Washington club team. Four years later, he was a member of the U.S. field hockey team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, during which he personally met Adolph Hitler.cite web|url=http://www.175wg.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123105701|title="Turnbull and Ray epitomized 'Greatest Generation'"|work=175th Wing website|accessdate=2008-09-05]

Turnbull enlisted in the Maryland National Guard as an aviation cadet and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on June 24, 1940. He was mobilized along with the rest of the Maryland National Guard in February 1941, just prior to the U.S. entry into World War II. During the war he quickly rose in rank, and by 1944 he was a Lieutenant Colonel. On October 20, 1944 his life tragically ended when he succumbed to injuries sustained two days earlier, when his B-24 crashed in Belgium after a mid-air collision while returning from a bombing run over Germany.cite web|url=http://www.175wg.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123105701|title="Turnbull and Ray epitomized 'Greatest Generation'"|work=175th Wing website|accessdate=2008-09-05]

References

ee also

*National Lacrosse Hall of Fame

External links

* [http://www.lacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=216 Lacrosse Hall of Fame Bio]
* [http://marylandmilitaryhistory.org Maryland Military Historical Society]
* [http://www.175wg.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123105701 Article about World War II service]

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