Frank Juhan

Frank Alexander "June" Juhan (April 27, 1887 - December 31, 1967) was an American football player and coach. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966, and is also a member of the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame and Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

Early years

Juhan attended West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio, Texas, where he was a classmate of General Douglas MacArthur.^[1]

Playing years

Frank Juhan was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, and boxing champion at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He was the first roving linebacker in the South, analogous to Germany Schulz's status in football history nationally. Juhan was a member of the 1909 team, which won a SIAA title. The Juhan Gym, where Sewanee today plays basketball, is named after him. It was dedicated on June 8, 1957.^[1] Juhan was a charter member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.^[2] He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.^[3]

After Sewanee

After graduating from Sewanee, he was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1911 and became the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Florida in 1924. He was the youngest diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church at the time of his consecration and the senior active bishop in the church when he retired in 1956.

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