Wild Bill Claiborne
Claiborne depicted c. 1900 | |
Sewanee Tigers | |
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Position | Guard |
Class | Graduate |
Major | Theology |
Career history | |
College | Sewanee (1899–1900) |
Personal information | |
Born: |
Amherst County, Virginia | December 11, 1872
Died: |
January 7, 1933 60) Florida | (aged
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne (December 11, 1872 – January 7, 1933) was a college football player and Episcopal archdeacon of Sewanee and East Tennessee. Before he was archdeacon, he was rector of Otey.[1]
College football
Claiborne attended Roanoke College from 1893 to 1895. Claiborne was a prominent guard for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of Tennessee. He played on the 1899 "Iron Men" who won five road games in six days and all by shutout,[2] selected All-Southern.[3] Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation on the field.[2][4][5] At Sewanee Claiborne studied theology[2] and was ordained priest in 1901.
Religious work
He was a member of the Missionary Society.[2] He was called the "apostle of the mountain folk" for his work among Tennessee mountain people.[2] He founded the St. Andrew's School for Mountain Boys, refounded St. Mary's School, and established Emerald-Hogston Hospital.[2] Claiborne wrote a book titled Roy in the Mountains.[2][6][7]
One description of his service in the ministry reads "eleven years ago he went into the mountains of East Tennessee and rolled up his sleeves. They are still up."[8]
References
- ↑ http://www.claibornesociety.org/newsletters/Claiborne_Clan_Newsletter_Fall_2015.pdf
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wendell Givens (2003). Ninety-Nine Iron: The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days. University of Alabama Press. pp. 32, 121.
- ↑ "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue.
- ↑ Richard Scott. SEC Football: 75 Years of Pride and Passion. p. 22.
- ↑ Randy Horick. "A Winner's Tale".
- ↑ "The Literature of Missions". Forth. 81: 721.
- ↑ Claiborne, William Stirling (6 November 2017). "Roy in the Mountains". E.S. Gorham – via Google Books.
- ↑ "The Literary Digest". Funk & Wagnalls. 6 November 2017 – via Google Books.