Kit DeCamps
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DeCamps c. 1899
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| Virginia Tech Hokies | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Career history | |
| College | Virginia Tech (1899–1901) |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | c. 1878 |
| Place of birth | Greenville, South Carolina |
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Christie Jean Baptiste "Kit" DeCamps (c. 1878 – ?) was a college football player who played for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
DeCamps was born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina, the son of Modeste and Mary Decamps.
DeCamps was a prominent quarterback for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was considered very fast. He also spent three years at Furman University and a year at Richmond College.
DeCamps was captain in 1901. He was selected a substitute on the All-Southern team.
He was once a quartermaster sergeant of Company B, second South Carolina regiment. DeCamps served in the Spanish–American War.
On 27 Nov 1907 DeCamps married Lois Catherine Sykes, daughter of T. C and Alice Sykes, in Portsmouth, Virginia. They had three children.
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