American football player, naval officer (1901–1964)
Stephen George Barchet (April 4, 1901 – November 30, 1964) was an American football player and a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
Barchet was born in St. Margaret's, Maryland, in 1901.[1] He attended the United States Naval Academy where he played baseball and football at the Naval Academy.[1] He played as a halfback for the Navy Midshipmen football team and was selected by Walter Camp as a third-team All-American in both 1921 and 1922 and won the Thompson Trophy in 1922.[2][3]
After graduating from the Naval Academy, Barchet served in the United States Navy for 30 years from 1924 to 1954, attaining the rank of rear admiral.[4] He commanded USS Argonaut, which was near Midway Island, when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.[4] He later commanded a submarine division base in Panama and served as operations officer for the Atlantic submarine force.[1] In 1945, he received the Legion of Merit for his contributions to the development of the Atlantic and Pacific submarine fleets.[5]
He retired from the Navy in 1954.[6] He later worked for the American Trading and Production Company and as the head of a paper company in Alabama. He died in 1964 at age 63 at the naval hospital in Annapolis, Maryland.[1] He was buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife Louise Elizabeth Lankford.[7]
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