Pund, "Peter" (Henry R.)
Football
b. Jan. 27, 1907, Augusta, GA
d. Sept. 17, 1987
Nicknamed "Peter the Great," the 6-foot-2, 200-pound Pund started at center for Georgia Tech from 1926 through 1928 and he captained the team in his senior season, when he was named an All-American. Georgia Tech won all 9 of its regular season games and beat the University of California 8-7 in the Rose Bowl.
Among the victories was a 13-0 defeat of Notre Dame. Knute Rockne wrote of Pund's performance in that game, "I counted twenty scoring plays that this man ruined. . . . We were hopelessly beaten--but I had the thrill of my life to see great fighters go down in defeat before a greater fighter."
In 1969, college football's centennial year, Pund was voted the best college center of the 1920s.