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  Maj. Gen. Kearie Lee Berry

Maj. Gen. Kearie Lee Berry

Player Profile

Sport: multi
Position: multi
Inducted: 1959
Hometown: Denton, Texas

FOOTBALL (1912, 1914-15, 1924, Lineman)
TRACK (1915, 1916, 1925)
WRESTLING (1915-16)

•Vice president of UT Student Association in 1915-16
•SWC heavyweight wrestling champion from 1915-16
•All-SWC football selection in 1914 and again in 1924 at age 31
•1915 football team captain
•A career Army man, he survived the famous Bataan Death March and 40 months as a prisoner of war
•Earned Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Distinguished Service Cross
•Named Adjutant General of Texas in 1947
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