Wild Bill Claiborne
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Class | Graduate |
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Major | Theology |
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Born: | Geddis, Amherst County, Virginia | December 11, 1872
Died: | January 7, 1933 Florida, U.S. | (aged 60)
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
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William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne (December 11, 1879 – 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 Memorial parish.[1][2]
College football
Claiborne attended Roanoke College from 1891 to 1897.[2]
Claiborne was a prominent
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,[3] selected All-Southern.[4] Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation on the field.[3][5][6] A documentary film about the team and Claiborne's role was released in 2022 called "Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899." [7] At Sewanee Claiborne studied theology[3]
and was ordained priest in 1901.
Religious work
He was a member of the Missionary Society.
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."[11]
References
- ^ "Message from the President" (PDF). Claiborne Society Newsletter (Fall 2015). Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography ... Current Volume. J. T. White. 1927.
- ^ ISBN 9780817350628.
- ^ "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue.
- ISBN 9781616731335.
- ^ Randy Horick. "A Winner's Tale".
- ^ "Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899", Wikipedia, 2023-01-23, retrieved 2023-01-31
- ISBN 978-0-8063-0042-9.
- ^ "The Literature of Missions". Forth. 81: 721. 1916.
- ^ Claiborne, William Stirling (1916). Roy in the Mountains. E.S. Gorham – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "The Literary Digest". Funk & Wagnalls. 6 November 2017 – via Google Books.