Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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AF e v ramous commodores Many loyal sons of VaiuU-rbilt have pone forth into the world and aehievetl Rn-at success in all walks of life. In furt. they are si nunierou: that It would tak - volumes to record them. In the limitetl space we have here il is our intention merely to take a few of these famous Commodores who are well known to the present student body and write them up Informally. i-mphaslzin the wonderful metamorphosis many of them have underKone in ehauRing from green frosh at Vanderbllt to the leaders In the business and profe«- . 4ional life today. The old pictures and data were llnally secured by the editor after much tiresome re- search throuKh »dd volumes of the Comet. the Com- modore ' s predeci ' ssor. Naturally, many we huntetl for we could not i nA. so we present only what we were :!».(.. t.. i. ' surreet. ORANTI.AM) Kl K. ' UI Tiie .ry first picture we siumbled on w.is this i-are pose of Graniland Rice anti Fiank (iodchaux. fc ' r., sit- ting side by each as the Commodore varsity nine of •y: had its picture struck. Orantlanfl playetl shortstop on the vaisit.v nine for three years, and was such a star that he had several big league offers, hut he save up a major league baseball caieer to follow The Sport Kight. as he calls his column today. Grantlaml also played basketball, being twice captain of his cbiss five, a. ! well as playing on the varsity quintet. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and was raised In Nashville, Every one knows of his great success since leavrng college, until today he is acknowl- edged the greatest living sport writer, and a wonderful poet. I ICANK A. (. ■ ( IIAI . SK.. (11 Judging from this picture. Kiank jseems to he a dreamy youth, but the reconls show he could wake up and bust a baseball on the nose, as he led the team in hitting. He backed Graniland up on the hot ines. na he play id left field three years. He also was on the track team, running the 100 and I ' L ' O; was ijuarter on the football teams of ' ' M and ' 00. He got his leg broke when Texas beat Vandy back in 1!M)0. and this last fall his stm. Frank. Jr.. secured revenge for his dad while playing the same position, just twenty years later. Th« resiTnblance of Frank. Jr.. to his father in this picture is striking. He is a K. A., and lives In MARVIN UNDERWOOD As ho appeared in track suit in ' 02. COACH ANDERSON v s he used to look in track suit. GRANT RICE AND FRANK GODCIIATX In baseball picture of ' 99 New Orleans. Today he is president of ' anilerl)iU .Vlumni vVssociation. president of the Rice Millers As- sociation of . merica. and one of the wealthy business men in the South. K. .M. KVIN I NOKRWOOI), ' U ' This shows the negligee manner in which the general counsel for the United States Railroad Commission ran around about twenty years agt». Ves. Marvin was very thinly clad in those days, but he incidentally bi-oke some records while thus attired. He won the tiuarter mile in the S. I. A. A, when a freshman, made the varsity eleven, and for years held the Vanderbilt record for the quarter. He was also a fine scholar-, making high grades. He r -ceived his B..A. in lituO and lA .n. in WtOi. He is a Phi Dilta Theta. and calls Atlanta home. When he went out into the law he carried the same »-nergy and aggressiveriesft with him that characteiizt-d htm on the track, though he wears more clothi-s now when exerting it: and today is one of the South ' s greatest lawyers, having hei ' n assistant attorney- general of the United States, general counsel of the Seaboard .Vir-Line, and general counsel for the United Slates Railroad Administration. WIlJJtAM J. ANOKR.SON, ' 05 Here ' s a familiar facel Very familiar iuileed! Hut those beautiful skinny legs and manly arms are not familiar — no. not familiar to the piesent generation, hut they were to the students from IHUO to i;t06. dur- ing which time they set quite a few records. No man on Vandy ' 3 track teams today can say their coach don ' t know his stuff, because for four years, and mnybo longer. Coach Hill showed his heels to all the opposing hurdlers in the South, incidentally breaking the S- I. A. A. low hurdle record and also the high Jump. The former he held until he trained a man to break It some ten years later. He was founder of the Commodore Club, a Delta Tau Delta, and came from Springfield. Today, besides being th» South ' s greatest track coach, he Is a primilnenl business man. execu- tive head of local Boy Scouts Division, and a Rotarian of note.