Ephraim Kirby-Smith

Ephraim Kirby-Smith
Sewanee Tigers
PositionTackle/Guard
Class1905
Personal information
Born:(1884-08-30)August 30, 1884
Sewanee, Tennessee
Died:July 8, 1938(1938-07-08) (aged 53)
Sewanee, Tennessee
Weight156 lb (71 kg)
Career history
CollegeSewanee (1903–1906)
Career highlights and awards

Ephraim Kirby-Smith (August 30, 1884 – July 8, 1938)[1] was a college football player.

Early years

Kirby-Smith was born on August 30, 1884, in Sewanee, Tennessee, the son of American Civil War general Edmund Kirby Smith and his wife Cassie Selden. Edmund Kirby Smith's brother Ephraim, for whom his son was presumably named, died in 1847 from wounds suffered at the Battle of Molino del Rey.[2][page needed]

College football

Kirby-Smith was a lineman for the college football team of the Sewanee Tigers, selected to its all-time football team.[3] He was selected All-Southern in 1903 and 1904.[4][5] At Sewanee he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

References

  1. ^ E. Melatiah. The Kirbys of New England. p. 185. ISBN 9785872387909.
  2. ^ Nofi, Albert A. (1995), A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery, Facts and Figures, Legends and Lore, Muses and Minstrels, Personalities and People, New York: Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-80622-3
  3. ^ "Sewanee's All-Time Football Team". Sewanee Alumni News. February 1949. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  4. ^ "Football in the South". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 161. 1904.
  5. ^ "National and Southern Honors". Sewanee Football Media Guide: 31. 2011.


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