Wild Bill Claiborne
William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne (December 11, 1872 – January 7, 1933) was a college football player and Episcopal archdeacon of Sewanee and East Tennessee. Before he was archdeacon, he was rector of Otey.[1]
 Claiborne depicted c. 1900 | |
| Sewanee Tigers | |
|---|---|
| Position | Guard |
| Class | Graduate |
| Major | Theology |
| Career history | |
| College | Sewanee (1899–1900) |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | December 11, 1872 Amherst County, Virginia |
| Died: | January 7, 1933 (aged 60) Florida |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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College football
Claiborne attended Roanoke College from 1893 to 1895. Claiborne was a prominent guard for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of Tennessee. He played on the 1899 "Iron Men" who won five road games in six days and all by shutout,[2] selected All-Southern.[3] Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation on the field.[2][4][5] At Sewanee Claiborne studied theology[2] and was ordained priest in 1901.
Religious work
He was a member of the Missionary Society.[2] He was called the "apostle of the mountain folk" for his work among Tennessee mountain people.[2] He founded the St. Andrew's School for Mountain Boys, refounded St. Mary's School, founded the DuBose Memorial Training School,[6] and established Emerald-Hogston Hospital.[2] Claiborne wrote a book titled Roy in the Mountains.[2][7][8]
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."[9]
References
- http://www.claibornesociety.org/newsletters/Claiborne_Clan_Newsletter_Fall_2015.pdf
- Wendell Givens (2003). Ninety-Nine Iron: The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days. University of Alabama Press. pp. 32, 121. ISBN 9780817350628.
- "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue.
- Richard Scott (15 September 2008). SEC Football: 75 Years of Pride and Passion. p. 22. ISBN 9781616731335.
- Randy Horick. "A Winner's Tale".
- Boddie, John Bennett (June 2009). Virginia Historical Genealogies. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-0042-9.
- "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.