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.

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AVniTEFOOKI) R. ' 01,K. ' Wl N»i v lsn t that a hot piriur ? 1 11 say! Look at that derhy and collar. Some liuds thoy wore batrk in Whlte- ft.oid ' s day at coIleg:e. Uv ' s shown here as nianaK M of the l«asebaU t«-ain of ' !i4. Can you imaKine It? See lhna - player ' s i-aps peii)inK up— real bas« hall caps (jio. Ves. he ' s mananer all riyht. I ' an ' t you just see mm rhasinK foul halls the year beTorc as assistant manager, an l running the kids who swiped ' em down Twenty- first? Besides that, he was Junior Class poet, sang first bass (nn conneetion with liis baseball team — we mean on the Glee Club) . and was vice-prt sident of the Senloi- Class or ' 94. Now this last might have some effect, but what on earth did shacking foul balls, writing poetry, and slnginK on tht- Glee C!ub have to do with his b« ing piTsident of the X. C. St. L. Railway, president VanderblU Boa I ' d of Trust, antl stockholder in count- less cot ' porations all over tlie country t«iilay? It ' s beyond us: ask him. Mr. Cole is a ' hi Phi. and lives in Nashville. JOHN J. TI(;KKT. ' 04 These two pals. Job nn its Tig rt :ind Kdgeiton. played on the same eleven in ' 01. Tigei-t was no s ouch as an athlct -; three years on the football team. an all-SouthcT-n fullback, captain-tleet football 1S04, varsity baski ' thall three years and captain in 1903. Neither was Jidin a dun -e. He won the entrance prize in Latin and (J reek, was president of his class, made Fhi Beta Kappa in iliiec years and in 1904 was elected as T -nnessee ' 8 first Rhodes scholar. Hot l)oy. this Tigert. Today at thirty-nine he is I ' nited States Commis- sioner of Education, after holding chairs in the South ' s leafling uni -ersities. He was the fiiiil child boi-n in Wisl.-y Hall, his father being a professor in the uni- versity then, and iiis grandfather was Bishop McTycire, who secured the first million from Cornelius V ' anderbilt, founded the univeisity. and was its fli-st president. JOHN E. KI GKRTON. ' 03 This square-jawed, bull-nocktd bird is nursing that footl)all with all tliose sctnes on it to let you all know he is captain of tin- football team — of 1901. Yes, twenty years ago. but it doesn ' t seem that long to Johnny. He was one ' cluva fulHiack loo. boys, once carrying the ball the whole length of the field for a touchdown in ten straight line bucks without stopping a second. He also was a star weight man r)n the track team. He shone also in class rooin and was a debater of note, president of the V. M. C. A., vice-president of his class. Conu ' t ' editoi , etc.. his college career corn- ing to a climax by his election to B. U. In 1902. He is a Kappa Sigma and came from Lebanon. Today the entire South is honored by his holding the Ijosltlon of president of the National Association of Manufacturers. Sitting CDGKUTON In football pie- tun-, ' (12. WHITEFOOUD COLE .As njanagei- of baseball in ' 91. |-i[|I. CO.V.VKLL Hi ' irS BCUrH DICK BARK On football fam of ' DR. RICHARD BARR In baseball picture, ' 92. I ' llll. CONXKI.L, ' H ' t Numbci one of these t h ree rou gh -neck look i n g gridiron warriors Is Phil Connell. Looks like he had on his heavies. doesn ' t he? Well, as clothes don ' t make tlu- man, neiilu r f ' j ' ' 1 does a uniform make a I » J. . A footba ' l player. Phil was atammm t I as good a fullback as ever wore nos guard in those days, and was captain of the varsity elevens of 91; and 97. being one of the few men who were ever captain twice. He was also a track star for four years, captain of field sports in ' 9 1. captain class basket- ball 9fi. on the gym team several years, and Comet editor ' 94. Phil was electi ' d B.l ' . In ' 9S. and literally looked the part. He is a Sigma Chi. and formerly lived in Nashville. Besidi s being a mcmlier of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, he is a philanthropic planter of Baton Rouge. Along with Governor Parlier of I-ouisiana he is given credit for putting across the recent $7,000,000 appro- priation for L. S. I . MCIl ' S BIRCH, ' 96 Round-faced No. i ' . with all that kinky fuzz and motoi ' man ' s haircut, is nobody but our Illustrious Dean of Me llcine. Reeojrnize the old boy? No? Well, he ' s the Dr. anyliow. He wasn ' t Ui . th ' n, Imwever. but was a cracking good guard, back In the days when every play was a center rush and the guai ' ds caught L. The Dean made tiie elr ' en his freshman year and played till they made him (luit. He was also a good baseball heavei-, b« Ing captain of the freshman nine. He is a K. A,, and was reared in Nashville. Di-. Lucius first studletl anatomy while under a mass of arms and legs belonging to twenty-one players. No wonder he ' s the Dejin of Mtdical School now I l R. Kl( HARD A. BARR, ' »4 ( huldty No. :t with his sti ingy hair partcil in the middle so as to fall grace full.v into i-ach eye Is Dr. Dick Barr. So Is that guy in bas;l all uniform and arms crossed in I-am-Nai oleon fushl(m. Veah. Dick p ' ayed end on the same eleven with Phil and Lucius. I ' retty good man loo. But baseball was his hobby, and he pla ed from ' s to ' 93. somehow, and was man- Bglf In 90 and captain In ' 91. The Dr. was a Phi Delta Thcta. a ' ao a charter-member of Alpha Sigma SIgmn. a famous lodge in those day. . But he ' s iTioru settled now, and has an infirmary and a 8on named after bini, the fornu-r being an asset, anil the latter a I ' lii freshman {K Murlbus I ' num) like his daddy was when that picture was struck. Besides be- ing a succi ' sslul iloctor, a valued professor, and alum- nus. Dr. Ban- organlzi d the Vanderbilt Medical Pnll that I ' endered such valiant service overseas.