Eric Cheape

Eric Cheape
Sewanee Tigers
Position Guard
Class Graduate
Career history
College Sewanee (19071909)
Personal information
Date of birth (1885-11-23)November 23, 1885
Place of birth Avon Park, Florida
Date of death October, 1973
Place of death Sewanee, Tennessee
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Frederick Peter "Eric" Cheape (November 23, 1885 October, 1973) was a college football player.

Sewanee

Cheape was a prominent guard for the Sewanee Tigers football team of Sewanee:The University of the South from 1907 to 1909. He was from Avon Park, Florida.[1]

1907

He was a member of the 1907 team, one of Sewanee's greatest.[2]

1909

He was selected All-Southern in 1909,[3] a year in which Sewanee was conference champion.

References

  1. "Tigers Are A Husky Bunch". Atlanta Constitution. November 9, 1907. p. 11. Retrieved April 11, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  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. "The All-Southern Eleven Picked By Coach Heisman". Atlanta Constitution. November 28, 1909. p. 3. Retrieved March 4, 2015 via Newspapers.com.


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