Ephraim Kirby-Smith

Ephraim Kirby-Smith
Sewanee Tigers
Position Tackle/Guard
Class 1905
Career history
College Sewanee (19031906)
Personal information
Date of birth (1884-08-30)August 30, 1884
Place of birth Sewanee, Tennessee
Date of death July 8, 1938(1938-07-08) (aged 53)
Place of death Sewanee, Tennessee
Weight 156 lb (71 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Ephraim "Eph" Kirby-Smith (August 30, 1884 July 8, 1938)[1] was a college football player.

Early years

Ephraim Kirby-Smith was born on August 30, 1884 in Sewanee, Tennessee, the son of American Civil War general Edmund Kirby-Smith and his wife Cassie Selden. Edmund's brother for whom his son Ephraim was presumably named died in 1847 from wounds suffered at the Battle of Molino del Rey.[2]

College football

Ephraim was an All-Southern college football lineman for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South,[3][4] selected to its All-Time football team.[5] At Sewanee he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

References

  1. E. Melatiah. The Kirbys of New England. p. 185.
  2. Nofi, Albert A. (1995), A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery, Facts and Figures, Legends and Lore, Muses and Minstrels, Personalities and People, New York: Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-80622-3
  3. "Football in the South". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 161.
  4. "National and Southern Honors". Sewanee Football Media Guide: 31. 2011.
  5. "Sewanee's All-Time Football Team". Sewanee Alumni News. February 1949.


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