Early years LeGore was born in
Frederick County, Maryland. He was a son of the James William LeGore. His father founded the LeGore Lime Company in 1861 and built the
LeGore Bridge near
Woodsboro, Maryland. LeGore attended the
Tome School,
Mercersburg Academy and
Lafayette College.
Yale LeGore enrolled at
Yale University where he played for the school's football, baseball and basketball teams and was a member of
Skull and Bones. In football, LeGore played
halfback and
fullback. He also handled punting duties and reportedly had a 65-yard average. and as a second-team All-American by
Walter Camp for
Collier's Weekly and
Walter Eckersall, of the
Chicago Tribune. LeGore also played
shortstop for the Yale baseball team. In 1915, LeGore was ruled permanently ineligible to complete in college athletics after it was found that his food and lodging had been paid while playing summer baseball. At the end of the 1916 season, LeGore was selected as a second-team All-American by
Walter Camp for
Collier's Weekly,
International News Service,
Walter Eckersall of the
Chicago Tribune, and
Paul Purman, noted sports writer whose All-American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States, and
University of Michigan football coach
Fielding H. Yost. In selecting LeGore as an All-American, Walter Camp called him "one of the nation's greatest athletes." In 1934, he was elected to the
Maryland State Senate. In 1936, he made an unsuccessful run for a seat in the
U.S. House of Representatives. LeGore eventually became president of the LeGore Lime Company and also served as a director of the
Potomac Edison Company.
Posthumous honors In 1977, LeGore was inducted into Maryland's Alvin G. Quinn Memorial Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999,
The News-Post in Maryland picked LeGore as one of the Top 25 most significant sports figures in the history of
Frederick County. He was the county's first athlete to be selected as a collegiate All-American. ==References==