Kit DeCamps

Kit DeCamps

DeCamps c. 1899
Virginia Tech Hokies
Position	Quarterback
Personal information
Born:	1878 Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Died:	(1951-08-24)August 24, 1951
Career history
College	Virginia Tech (1899–1901)
Career highlights and awards
All-Southern substitute (1901)

Christie Jean Baptiste "Kit" DeCamps (1878 – 24 August 1951) was a war veteran, civil engineer and college football player who played for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early life

DeCamps was born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina, the son of Ghislain Modeste Decamps (1834–1896) and Mary E. Hahn (1854–1947).^[1]

Football career

DeCamps was a prominent quarterback for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.^[2] He was considered very fast.^[3] He also spent three years at Furman University and a year at Richmond College.^[4]

1901

DeCamps was captain in 1901.^[5][6][7] He was selected a substitute on the All-Southern team.^[8][9]

Military career

DeCamps was a quartermaster sergeant of Company B, second South Carolina regiment.^[10] DeCamps served in the Spanish–American War.^[11]

Family

On November 23, 1907, DeCamps married Lois Catherine Sykes (1881–1924), daughter of Tiberius Constantine Sykes and Alice E. Luke, in Portsmouth, Virginia.^[1] They had three children.

• Captain William Luke deCamps (July 6, 1911 – May 12, 1991), served in the 111th Field Artillery battalion of the 29th Infantry Division during Operation Overlord.^[12]
• Lois Sykes Decamps (1912–1991), married the diplomat George H. Steuart on May 28, 1938 in Wallacetown, Virginia
• Charles Decamps (1914–1991), who served in Italy during World War II

DeCamps died on August 24, 1951.

References

1. Family Search Retrieved 6 May 2015
2. "Virginia Tech Football - All Century Team". Virginia Tech Magazine. 14 (3). 1992.
3. "Blacksburg Eleven". The Times. October 7, 1900.
4. Chi Psi (1902). The Sixth Decennial Catalogue. p. 345.
5. "Coaches, Captains, Records" (PDF). p. 258. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
6. Walter Camp (1902). Spalding's Football Guide. p. 104.
7. "Bugle" (PDF). 1936. p. 373.
8. ""All Southern" Eleven". The State. February 7, 1902.
9. Oscar P. Schmidt (1902). "Football in the Southern Colleges". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 129.
10. The Purple and Gold. Chi Psi Fraternity. 1898. p. 152.
11. "Christie J. B. Decamps".
12. DDay Overlord.com Retrieved May 2015

External links

• Kit DeCamps in Spanish–American War Retrieved 13 February 2019
• Kit CeCamps in the 1901 Edition of The Bugle Retrieved 3 August 2019