Wild Bill Claiborne

William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne (December 11, 1872 – January 7, 1933) was a college football player and Episcopal archdeacon of Sewanee and East Tennessee. Before he was archdeacon, he was rector of Otey.[1]

W. S. Claiborne
Claiborne depicted c. 1900
Sewanee Tigers
PositionGuard
ClassGraduate
MajorTheology
Career history
CollegeSewanee (1899–1900)
Personal information
Born:(1872-12-11)December 11, 1872
Amherst County, Virginia
Died:January 7, 1933(1933-01-07) (aged 60)
Florida
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight190 lb (86 kg)
Career highlights and awards

College football

Claiborne attended Roanoke College from 1893 to 1895. Claiborne was a prominent guard for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of Tennessee. He played on the 1899 "Iron Men" who won five road games in six days and all by shutout,[2] selected All-Southern.[3] Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation on the field.[2][4][5] At Sewanee Claiborne studied theology[2] and was ordained priest in 1901.

Religious work

He was a member of the Missionary Society.[2] He was called the "apostle of the mountain folk" for his work among Tennessee mountain people.[2] He founded the St. Andrew's School for Mountain Boys, refounded St. Mary's School, founded the DuBose Memorial Training School,[6] and established Emerald-Hogston Hospital.[2] Claiborne wrote a book titled Roy in the Mountains.[2][7][8]

One description of his service in the ministry reads "eleven years ago he went into the mountains of East Tennessee and rolled up his sleeves. They are still up."[9]

References
  1. http://www.claibornesociety.org/newsletters/Claiborne_Clan_Newsletter_Fall_2015.pdf
  2. Wendell Givens (2003). Ninety-Nine Iron: The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days. University of Alabama Press. pp. 32, 121. ISBN 9780817350628.
  3. "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue.
  4. Richard Scott (15 September 2008). SEC Football: 75 Years of Pride and Passion. p. 22. ISBN 9781616731335.
  5. Randy Horick. "A Winner's Tale".
  6. Boddie, John Bennett (June 2009). Virginia Historical Genealogies. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-0042-9.
  7. "The Literature of Missions". Forth. 81: 721. 1916.
  8. Claiborne, William Stirling (1916). Roy in the Mountains. E.S. Gorham – via Internet Archive.
  9. "The Literary Digest". Funk & Wagnalls. 6 November 2017 – via Google Books.
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