Ammie Sikes

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Ammie Sikes
Ammiesikes.jpg
Sikes c. 1912
Vanderbilt Commodores
PositionFullback
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:(1892-07-26)July 26, 1892
Smyrna, Tennessee
Died:September 1, 1963(1963-09-01) (aged 71)
Tennessee
Weight164 lb (74 kg)
Career history
CollegeVanderbilt (1911–1914)
Career highlights and awards

Ammie Thomas Sikes (July 26, 1892 – September 1963) was a college football player.

Early years[]

Ammie Sikes was born on July 26, 1892, in Smyrna, Tennessee, to Jessie Sikes and Jennie James.[1]

Vanderbilt University[]

Football[]

Sikes was a prominent fullback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1911 to 1914. He was thrice selected All-Southern.[2]

1911[]

The 1911 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship team outscored opponents 259 to 9, suffering its only loss by a single point to Michigan. Edwin Pope's Football's Greatest Coaches reads "A lightning-swift backfield of Lew Hardage, Wilson Collins, Ammie Sikes, and Ray Morrison pushed Vandy through 1911 with only a 9-8 loss to Michigan." The Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South.[3]

1912[]

The 1912 team lost only to national champion Harvard and outscored opponents 393 to 19. The Commodores scored 100 points in both of its first two games.

1913[]

The 1914 Vanderbilt Commodores. Sikes is bottom right.

In 1913, Sikes took Lewie Hardage's old position at left halfback.[4] On the 7 to 6 win over Tennessee in 1913, one account reads "'Red' Rainey shone for Tennessee, though he was later relegated to the side lines after a collision with one A. Sikes, Esq., otherwise known as the "Roaring Representative from Williamson."[5]

1914[]

Sikes was captain of the 1914 team. He made Outings Roll of Honor.[6]

Coaching career[]

He coached Montgomery Bell Academy in 1916 and to the state prep championship in 1917.[7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
  2. ^ e. g."Constitution's All-Southern Picked By Coach Donahue of Champion Auburn Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 30, 1913.
  3. ^ Charles Weatherby (2 April 2014). "Wilson Collins". The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series: 13. ISBN 9781933599700.
  4. ^ "October 21, 1913 (Vol. 24, iss. 19) - Image 1".
  5. ^ Vanderbilt University (1913). "Athletics". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 13: 309.
  6. ^ "Football Roll of Honor".
  7. ^ "Morgan and M. B. A. To Lock Horns Today". The Tennessean. November 11, 1916. p. 8. Retrieved September 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  8. ^ "Claim State Prep Championship". The Tennessean. December 3, 1917. p. 12. Retrieved January 3, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. open access
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