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Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd (February 12, 1889 – October 2, 1970) was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician. Byrd began a long association with the University of Maryland as an undergraduate in 1905, and eventually rose to the position of university president from 1936 to 1954. In the interim, he had also served as the university's athletic director and head coach for the football and baseball teams. Byrd amassed a 119–82–15 record in football from 1911 to 1934 and 88–73–4 record in baseball from 1913 to 1923. Byrd Stadium, the university's current football field, and its predecessor were both named in his honor. In graduate school at Georgetown University, he became one of football's early users of the newly legalized forward pass, and he had a brief baseball career including one season as pitcher for the San Francisco Seals. Byrd resigned as university president in order to enter politics in 1954. He ran an unsuccessful campaign as the Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor against Theodore McKeldin. Byrd later received appointments to state offices with responsibilities in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. In the 1960s, he made unsuccessful bids for seats in each chamber of the United States Congress. Byrd was a proponent of a "separate but equal" status of racial segregation in his roles as both university administrator and political candidate. In 2015, the student government association agreed to a resolution in support of changing the name of Byrd Stadium because of Byrd's segregationist history. On September 28, 2015, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh appointed task force to develop viewpoints and options. The University President will then make a recommendation to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents—the governing body of Maryland state universities—as to whether the change or keep the name. The ultimate decision on any name change rests with the Board of Regents.〔http://wtop.com/education/2015/09/working-group-considering-name-change-for-byrd-stadium/〕 ==Early life== Harry Clifton Byrd was born on February 12, 1889, in Crisfield, Maryland. He was one of six children of oysterman and county commissioner William Franklin Byrd and his wife Sallie May Byrd.〔 In his youth, Byrd worked in the Chesapeake Bay fishing industry, where he saved most of his money to finance his college education.〔Jason Rhodes, (''Somerset County, Maryland: A Brief History'' ), pp. 111–a112, The History Press, 2007, ISBN 1-59629-273-3.〕 He attended Crisfield High School, where he excelled on the baseball diamond, and was also known as his hometown's first recreational jogger.〔 A later source described how he appeared in 1905: "He was tall, and as the saying goes, built like a whip. He had a startlingly handsome face, with big, flashing eyes, a splotch of florid red on each cheek, and a mane of black curly hair ... He looked like Rupert of Hentzau, and had all of that worthy's cold, sinister resolution about everything that he did."〔James Mallahan Cain, (''60 Years of Journalism'' ), p. 120, Popular Press, 1985, ISBN 0-87972-327-0.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Curley Byrd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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