Buck Flowers
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Running back, Georgia Tech (from Davidson), 1917–⁠20

Buck Flowers

Born
Mar 26, 1899, in Sumter, South Carolina
Died
Apr 8, 1983, in Birmingham, Alabama

Buck Flowers played running back at Davidson (1917) and Georgia Tech (1918–⁠20). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.

Honors

Team titles: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association champions, 1918 and 1920

All-America: Walter Camp second team 1918; INS third team 1920; Robert “Tiny” Maxwell second team 1918; Henry L. Farrell third team 1920

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

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