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Hargrove was born on September 7, 1893 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Circuit Judge Adrian Sebastain Van de Graaff Senior and Minnie Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff.
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He helped organize sports at Tuscaloosa High School with football, baseball, and track. Hargrove was an All-Southern end for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama. William, known as "Bully," was Alabama"s first All-American.
Hargrove was the smallest of the three.
Hargrove also played baseball and lettered in track. Robert J. Van de Graaff, the inventor of the Van de Graaff generator which produces high voltages, was another brother.
Following a hard-fought scoreless tie with Georgia Technical in 1911, coach John Heisman declared that he had never seen a player "so thoroughly imbued with the true spirit of football as Hargrove Van de Graaff." In a game in 1913 against Tennessee, Hargrove nearly lost an ear and tried to rip it off to avoid leaving the game. After graduation, Hargrove followed Adrian into the military.
He served in Mexico and in France in the First World War.
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