Wild Bill Claiborne
 Claiborne depicted c. 1900 | |
| Sewanee Tigers | |
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| Position | Guard |
| Class | Graduate |
| Major | Theology |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | December 11, 1872 Geddis,Amherst County, Virginia |
| Died: | January 7, 1933(aged 60) Florida,U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Career history | |
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William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne(December 11, 1879 – January 7, 1933) was acollege footballplayer and Episcopal archdeacon of Sewanee and East Tennessee. Before he was archdeacon, he was rector of Otey Memorial parish.[1][2]
College football
[edit]Claiborne attended Roanoke College from 1891 to 1897.[2]
Claiborne was a prominentguardfor theSewanee TigersofSewanee:The University of the South,a smallEpiscopalschool in the mountains ofTennessee.He played on the 1899 "Iron Men"who won five road games in six days and all by shutout,[3]selectedAll-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 studiedtheology[3]and was ordained priest in 1901.
Religious work
[edit]He was a member of the Missionary Society.[3]He was called the "apostle of the mountain folk" for his work among Tennesseemountain people.[3]He founded the St. Andrew's School for Mountain Boys, refounded St. Mary's School, founded theDuBose Memorial Training School,[8]and established Emerald-Hogston Hospital.[3]Claiborne wrote a book titledRoy in the Mountains.[3][9][10]
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
[edit]- ^"Message from the President"(PDF).Claiborne Society Newsletter(Fall 2015).Retrieved2023-10-15.
- ^abThe National Cyclopaedia of American Biography... Current Volume.J. T. White. 1927.
- ^abcdefgWendell Givens (2003).Ninety-Nine Iron: The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days.University of Alabama Press. pp. 32, 121.ISBN9780817350628.
- ^"An All-Southern College Eleven".Orange and Blue.
- ^Richard Scott (15 September 2008).SEC Football: 75 Years of Pride and Passion.Voyageur Press. p. 22.ISBN9781616731335.
- ^Randy Horick."A Winner's Tale".
- ^"Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899",Wikipedia,2023-01-23,retrieved2023-01-31
- ^Boddie, John Bennett (June 2009).Virginia Historical Genealogies.Genealogical Publishing Com.ISBN978-0-8063-0042-9.
- ^"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.