Rupert Colmore
Sewanee Tigers
PositionHalfback, end
Class1905
Personal information
Born:(1883-02-03)February 3, 1883
Sewanee, Tennessee, US
Died:July 9, 1958(1958-07-09) (aged 75)
Chattanooga, Tennessee, US
Weight155 lb (70 kg)
Career history
CollegeSewanee (1900–1904)
Career highlights and awards

Rupert McPherson Colmore Sr. (February 3, 1883 – July 9, 1958) was a college football player and physician. He succeeded William W. Dickey as director of the Venereal Clinics in Chattanooga.[1] He married Margaret Bowdoin in Louisiana.[2][3]

Early years

Colmore was born to Robert L. Colmore and Priscilla Addenbrook.[4]

Sewanee

He was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa.[5] He was a prominent halfback and end for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South. He was captain of the 1904 team.[6] Colmore was selected All-Southern by Nash Buckingham in 1903.[7] Colmore was shifted from end to halfback in 1902, garnering praise for his play at both positions.[8] George Trevor selected him as second-team end on his all-time Sewanee team.[9]

Many of his brothers and also his son, Rupert Colmore Jr., played for Sewanee. His son is the only All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) player the school ever had.

References

  1. ↑ "JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association". American Medical Association. 3 November 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Leonard (3 November 2017). "Makers of America: Biographies of Leading Men of Thought and Action, the Men who Constitute the Bone and Sinew of American Prosperity and Life". B.F. Johnson – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ4-TSDT : 15 October 2015), Rupert McPherson Colmore and Margaret Susan Bowdoin, 29 Nov 1911; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 909,946.
  4. ↑ "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKM9-TDJ7 : 3 April 2015), Rupert M Colmore, 1958.
  5. ↑ "Tau Chapter". Catalogue of Alpha Kappa Kappa: 188. 1909.
  6. ↑ "Colmore Leads Sewanee Team". Atlanta Constitution. December 5, 1903. p. 15. Retrieved August 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  7. ↑ "The Best in the South". The Cincinnati Enquirer. November 30, 1903. p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ↑ "Sewanee to Bring Great Team to Meet Crackers". Atlanta Constitution. November 15, 1902. p. 7. Retrieved August 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  9. ↑ https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A22903/datastream/PDF/view
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