Herb Ruby

Herbert E. Ruby II (1918-1990) was a minor league baseball player, a pitcher, for one season () with the Staunton Presidents of Staunton, Virginia in the Virginia League. He went on to become a high school football, basketball, and track coach in Carroll County, Maryland.
Ruby was born in Champaign, Illinois on August 27, 1918. He originally attended the University of Illinois, then transferred to Bridgewater College in 1938, where he played baseball and basketball for the Bridgewater Eagles. While a student and athlete at Bridgewater, Ruby was awarded three letters in baseball and two in basketball.
Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, he finished out his teaching term and enlisted in the military on May 23, 1942. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, where he was a B-24 pilot with the 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force reaching the rank of first lieutenant.
Notable football titles included wins of the Cumberland Valley Championships in 1957 and again in 1959. In 1989 he was inducted into the Maryland Football Coaches Hall of Fame. He was also honored by the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation's Herb Armstrong Service to Football Award. He died in Maryland in April 1990. and the Bridgewater College Athletic Hall of Fame in late 2000. The Carroll County Times newspaper bestows an annual Herb Ruby Award to a male and a female high school senior student athlete who "best feature a balance of academics and athletics".

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