Harold Sebring

Harold Leon Sebring (March 9, 1898 – July 26, 1968), nicknamed Tom Sebring, was a Florida Supreme Court justice, and an American judge at one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials of German war criminals after World War II . Sebring was a native of Kansas and an alumnus of Kansas State Agricultural College . While Sebring attended law school at the University of Florida , he also served as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team that represented the university.

Contents

• 1 Early life

• 2 World War I

• 3 College

• 4 Law school student and football coach

• 5 Lawyer and judge

• 6 Law school dean

• 7 Family and death

• 8 Head coaching record

  • 8.1 Football

• 9 See also

• 10 References

• 11 External links

Early life

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Sebring was born in Olathe, Kansas in 1898, the son of John Thomas Sebring and Anna Lee Hayden Sebring. He graduated from Gardner High School in Gardner, Kansas in 1916, along with his brother, Leonard Sebring.

World War I

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Sebring spent 22 months overseas and thirteen months in combat during World War I , and was twice decorated by the U.S. Army with the Silver Star for exceptional bravery under enemy fire, and also received the Croix de Guerre and Corde de Fourragere from the French government. Sebring was honorably discharged from the Army as a sergeant in 1919.

College

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Student photo while at Kansas State.

After returning to the United States, he studied architecture, engineering and business at Kansas State Agricultural College (now known as Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas , where he also excelled as a member of the Kansas State Aggies football , boxing and track & field teams. Sebring was an All Missouri Valley Conference football selection in 1921 and 1922 and, later, was named to the Kansas State Aggies All-Time Football Team. Sebring received a Bachelor of Science degree in commerce from Kansas State in 1923.

Law school student and football coach

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While playing football at Kansas State, one of Sebring's coaches was Captain James Van Fleet , a U.S. Army officer who was one of the college's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) instructors. Van Fleet joined the faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in 1921, and also became an assistant coach for the Florida Gators football team. When Van Fleet became the head coach of the Gators in , he asked Sebring to join him in Gainesville as an assistant football coach and the head coach of the Florida Gators track and field and boxing teams.

Sebring accepted the coaching position and also enrolled in the University of Florida College of Law as a student. When the Army transferred Van Fleet to a new posting in the Panama Canal Zone after the season, he recommended Sebring as his replacement, after serving as Van Fleet's chief scout in 1924.

Sebring quickly proved himself to be a creative football coach and innovator; his 1925 Gators finished with an 8–2 record, the best record in school history to that time. Florida went 7–3 in , Sebring's third and final season, and the team he recruited for finished 8–1 and led the nation in scoring. Sebring graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1928, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as an "Honorary Letter Winner " and was tapped into Florida Blue Key leadership society.

Lawyer and judge

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