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Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame

Clayton Lee Burwell

Clayton Lee Burwell

  • Class
  • Induction
    2004
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Tennis

Rhodes Scholar … Team captain at Sewanee and Oxford … Southern Intercollegiate champion, 1931 … National Intercollegiate semifinalist, 1931-32 … Played at Wimbledon three times, 1933-34-35 … Advanced to the round of 16 in singles one year at Wimbledon...Singles & doubles champion of Tenn., Kentucky, and West Va. (1928 & 1929) and N.C. in 1928... Southern Doubles champion, 1937…  Super Seniors national doubles champion on grass and clay in 1965 with Colonel Nicholas E. Powel...Super Seniors national double champion (hard courts) in 1965 with C. Alphonso Smith…High School:Central High School; Charlotte, N.C....North Carolina high school state champion in singles and doubles in 1927 & 1928...

U.S. National Rankings: No. 19 in 1931; No. 17 in 1932; No.2 in Super Senior Doubles in 1959...Singles or doubles champion of Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany in 1934...Halls of Fame —  Greensboro N.C. (1972) and Wash. D.C. (1976)...Died in 1998.

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