Gordon Holmes (American football)

Gordon Forrest "Sherlock" Holmes (c. 1905 – August 8, 1963) was a college football player.

Gordon Holmes
Alabama Crimson Tide
PositionCenter
ClassGraduate
Career history
CollegeAlabama (1924–1926)
Bowl games
Personal information
Born:c. 1905
Springville, Alabama
Died:August 8, 1963(1963-08-08) (aged 57–58)
Fairfield, Alabama
Career highlights and awards

College football

Holmes was an All-Southern center for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of the University of Alabama,[1] a member of the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl. He got a case of appendicitis en route to the second one while in El Paso,[2] and was left there with the idea of Babe Pearce filling in for Holmes. Holmes let his doctors know he would catch the next train to Pasadena.[3][4] The team's roster lists him as from Springville, Alabama.[5]

He died on August 8, 1963.[6]

References
  1. "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.
  2. "Alabama Will Feel Loss of its Star, Sherlock Holmes". The Independent Record. December 24, 1926. p. 9. Retrieved March 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Crimson Centennial Moment". The Tuscaloosa News. December 23, 1992.
  4. "Through Long Drill; Biff Hoffman On Injured List". The Gazette Times. December 25, 1926.
  5. "2010 Football Records Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2011.
  6. "Ex-U of A Gridder, G. F. Holmes, Dies". Birmingham News. August 9, 1963. p. 30.
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