Jack Dye

American football player and surgeon
Jack Dye
Vanderbilt Commodores
PositionHalfback
ClassGraduate
MajorMedicine
Career history
CollegeVanderbilt (1895–1898)
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. ^ a b Vanderbilt University (1915). "Alumni Notes". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 15: 48–50.
  2. ^ a b "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ Bill Traughber (October 11, 2006). "Vandy Shuts Out 1897 Opponents" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ W. A. Lambeth (1899). "Football In The South". Outing. 33. Outing Publishing Company: 527.
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  • QB Frank O. Rogers
  • HB Jim MacRae
  • HB Jack Dye
  • FB A. Clarence Jones
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