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Henry Phillips

Henry Phillips

  • Class
    1904
  • Induction
    2004
  • Sport(s)
    Football

Guard … Inducted into the National Football Hall of Famein 1959 … Four-time All-South, 1901-02-03-04 … 1902team captain … President of the Southern IntercollegiateAthletic Assoc. 1919-1922 ... Played guard, but scored 16 careertouchdowns ... At 6-4, he was a member of John Heisman’sAll-Time S.I.A.A. Team (chosen in 1912) ... Scored five touchdownsvs. Auburn in 1903 …  Sewanee  B.A. graduate in1904 … Bachelor of Divinity in 1906 …He was the linecoach on the Southern champion 1909 team … Former SewaneeChaplain and Professor of English Bible (1915-1922) … FormerSewanee Trustee (1940-43) … Consecrated Bishop ofSouthwestern Virginia in 1938 …Born in Philadelphia, Pa.,Jan. 16, 1882 … Educated in Atlanta public schools …Died June 29, 1955 in Boone, N.C. at the age of 73 …

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