Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame
Weymouth was a native of Chadron who was a pioneer in more ways than one. Biographical information says that he homesteaded in Wyoming. It’s also believed that he was the player-coach on CSC football teams in 1915 and ’16, but the only games on record those years were against Alliance High. Alliance won once, CSC won once and the other was a 12-12 tie. He served in the Army during World War I and then returned to college. The Eagles’ letterman’s book lists Weymouth as a football letterman in 1919 and ’20, when CSC played a total of 12 games, winning half of them. He graduated in 1925.
Ross Armstrong wrote that Weymouth was “given credit for keeping football alive in the early years of the college.”
Nicknamed “Pidge,” Weymouth lived most of his adult life in Sidney. He went there as a teacher and coach in 1925, became the high school principal and was superintendent of schools from 1942 until his retirement in the summer of 1962. The football field at Sidney is named in his honor.
