Ammie Sikes
![]() Sikes c. 1912 | |
Vanderbilt Commodores | |
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Position | Fullback |
Class | Graduate |
Personal information | |
Born: | Smyrna, Tennessee | July 26, 1892
Died: | September 1, 1963 Tennessee | (aged 71)
Weight | 164 lb (74 kg) |
Career history | |
College | Vanderbilt (1911–1914) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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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[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/1914Vandy.jpg/250px-1914Vandy.jpg)
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[]
- ^ Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
- ^ e. g."Constitution's All-Southern Picked By Coach Donahue of Champion Auburn Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 30, 1913.
- ^ Charles Weatherby (2 April 2014). "Wilson Collins". The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series: 13. ISBN 9781933599700.
- ^ "October 21, 1913 (Vol. 24, iss. 19) - Image 1".
- ^ Vanderbilt University (1913). "Athletics". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 13: 309.
- ^ "Football Roll of Honor".
- ^ "Morgan and M. B. A. To Lock Horns Today". The Tennessean. November 11, 1916. p. 8. Retrieved September 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Claim State Prep Championship". The Tennessean. December 3, 1917. p. 12. Retrieved January 3, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1892 births
- 1963 deaths
- All-Southern college football players
- Vanderbilt Commodores football players
- American football fullbacks
- Players of American football from Tennessee
- American football punters
- High school football coaches in Tennessee
- People from Smyrna, Tennessee