Tom Lipscomb

Tom Lipscomb
Lipscomb cropped from the 1914 team photo
Vanderbilt Commodores
PositionGuard/Tackle
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight205 lb (93 kg)
Career history
College
Career highlights and awards

Thomas Lipscomb was a college football player.

Vanderbilt

Lipscomb was a prominent tackle and guard for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams, playing opposite Josh Cody.[1][2]

1915

He and Cody blocked a punt in the game against Sewanee for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship in 1915.[3]

1919

In the game against SIAA champion Auburn in 1919, he and Frank Goar were sent in on Auburn's last drive. Goar had been sick and Lipscomb was suffering from an injured ankle. The two spurned the team to victory in what the yearbook called "the greatest defensive stand ever staged by any Vanderbilt team." It was Auburn's only loss. Lipscomb was selected All-Southern by some writers the same year, including Zipp Newman.[4]

References

  1. ^ Vanderbilt University (1914). "Auburn". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 14: 312.
  2. ^ "Jackets Prepare For Vanderbilt". The Columbus Ledger. October 13, 1920.
  3. ^ Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football. Nashville, TN, 1938, p. 37
  4. ^ "All-Southern Elevens". Spalding Football Guide. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service. 1920. pp. 41, 69.


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