Frank Godchaux, Sr.

Frank Godchaux
Born 1870
Abbeville, Louisiana
Occupation President of Louisiana Rice Milling Company

College football career

Vanderbilt Commodores
Position Quarterback
Class 1901
Career history
College

Frank Area Godchaux, Sr. (1870 – ?) was once President of the Louisiana Rice Milling Company, a $10,000,000 corporation.[1][2] He was a letterman and quarterback for the Vanderbilt Commodores on the 1899 team,[3] transferring from LSU in 1897.[4][5] He and his son Frank Godchaux Jr were the first father-son Vandy lettermen. Godchaux Sr. was the only child of pioneering merchant Gustave Godchaux, whose parents came from France to Louisiana.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.crowleypostsignal.com/louisiana-state-rice-milling-company
  2. ↑ "Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Division".
  3. ↑ "Godchaux Honored by Vanderbilt". The Kappa Alpha Journal 38 (1): 58.
  4. ↑ cf. Kathy Rivers. "Godchaux Family".
  5. ↑ "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing 64: 320–331. 1914.
  6. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/stable/4233804
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