Lucius E. Burch

Lucius Burch
Vanderbilt Commodores
Position Guard
Class Graduate
Career history
College Vanderbilt (1894–1897)
Personal information
Date of birth December 10, 1874
Place of birth Nashville, Tennessee
Date of death October 15, 1959 (aged 84)
Place of death Nashville, Tennessee
Career highlights and awards
  • SIAA championship (1897)
  • 1912 All-time Vandy 1st team.

Lucius Edward "Luke" Burch (December 10, 1874 – October 15, 1959) was a college football player and prominent surgeon in the South who was once Dean of Vanderbilt University Medical School.[1] He was the father of Lucius E. Burch, Jr.

Vanderbilt University

Burch received his M. D. Degree in 1896.

Football

He was a prominent player on the Vanderbilt Commodores football team[2] – "one of the best guards developed in the United States during his athletic career."[3][4] Burch was selected first team for an all-time Vanderbilt football team in 1912.[5]

1897

The team went undefeated allowing no points and had the first conference championship for the school.

Medical practice

Burch practiced briefly in Bear Spring, Tennessee before studying surgery at St. George's Hospital in London. He joined the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in 1904 as Professor of Gynecology before becoming dean ten years later.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Lucius E. Burch Papers". Retrieved February 13, 2015.
  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. ↑ Henry Jay Case. "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing 64: 327.
  4. ↑ cf. Vanderbilt University. "The "Famous" Class of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly 6: 246.
  5. ↑ Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University Quarterly 13. p. 56.
  6. ↑ "Lucius Edward Burch".

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