Jack Dye

Jack Dye
Vanderbilt Commodores
Position Halfback
Class Graduate
Major Medicine
Career history
College Vanderbilt (18951898)
Career highlights and awards

John S. "Jack" Dye was a college football player and surgeon.[1]

Vanderbilt University

He was a prominent halfback for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University from 1895 and 1898.[2]

1897

The team held all opponents scoreless and won its first conference title in 1897.[2][3]

1898

Dye was selected All-Southern.[4]

Surgeon

He was a successful surgeon of Chattanooga who worked at the Erlanger Hospital.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Vanderbilt University (1915). "Alumni Notes". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 15: 48–50.
  2. 1 2 "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Bill Traughber (October 11, 2006). "Vandy Shuts Out 1897 Opponents" (PDF).
  4. W. A. Lambeth (1899). "Football In The South". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 33: 527.


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