Dan Whelchel

Dan Whelchel
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position Guard
Class Graduate
Career history
College Georgia Tech (1917–1919)
Personal information
Date of birth (1894-08-26)August 26, 1894
Place of birth Dawson County, Georgia
Date of death March 1, 1988(1988-03-01) (aged 93)
Place of death West Helena, Arkansas
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 194 lb (88 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Dan Whelchel (August 26, 1894 – March 1, 1988) was a college football player and fruit horticulturalist.

Early years

Dan Whelchel was born in Dawson County, Georgia on August 26, 1894 to Jordan Davis Whelchel and Amanda Jane Palmour. At the time of his enrollment at Tech he was living in Ashburn, Georgia.[1] Dan was a first cousin of All-Southern Georgia Bulldogs football player Hugh Whelchel.

Georgia Tech

Whelchel was a prominent guard for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1]

1917

He was a member of the school's first national championship team in 1917, having to join the American effort in the First World War before he got to celebrate.[2]

Horticulturalist

Whelchel later was a fruit horticulturalist in Arkansas, specializing in nuts.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Football Prospects". The Technique. October 2, 1901. p. 6.
  2. ↑ Heisman, John M. (2012). Heisman: The Man Behind The Trophy. Simon & Schuster. pp. 160, 164. ISBN 1451682913.
  3. ↑ Year: 1930; Census Place: Hornor, Phillips, Arkansas; Roll: 87; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0012; Image: 832.0; FHL microfilm: 2339822.


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