Dan Blake
.jpg) Blake cropped from the 1906 team picture | |
| Vanderbilt Commodores | |
|---|---|
| Position | Halfback |
| Class | Graduate |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | May 22, 1882 Cuero, Texas, U.S. |
| Died: | September 7, 1953 (aged 71) Gary, Indiana, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | Vanderbilt (1903–1906) |
| High school | Bowen School |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Daniel Bigelow Blake Jr. (May 22, 1882 – September 7, 1953) was an American football player and coach.
Early life
[edit]Blake was born on May 22, 1882, in Cuero, Texas, to Daniel Bigelow Blake Sr. and Mary Clara Weldon. Dan Sr. was a physician and once president of the Nashville Academy of Medicine.[1]
College career
[edit]Blake was a prominent halfback and end for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams from 1903 to 1906, winning multiple Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) titles. His two brothers, Bob and Vaughan, also played on those teams. Dan, Bob, and Vaughan were captains of the 1906, 1907, and 1908 Vanderbilt teams respectively. Dan Blake was selected consensus All-Southern in 1906. At Vanderbilt he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and stood 5 feet 11 and weighed some 165 pounds.[2]
Blake played end in 1903, the same position as his brother, Bob.
One writer in 1904 still contended Blake, who "played left half for Vanderbilt, '04, being taken from left end, which position he played in '03. End is his position; he is heavy, weighing about 170, is fast, a good tackler, advances the ball well, and is a fair punter."[3]
Blake was captain of the 1906 team, considered one of the school's greatest.[4] Dan made the field goal to tie Michigan 4 to 4, a score that would remain until the final two minutes saw a Michigan touchdown.[5]
Later life
[edit]Blake went on to coach at Hopkinsville High School at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. While there he was manager of the electric light and gas plants of the Kentucky Public Service Company.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Charles Wells Moulton (1906). "Blake, Daniel Bigelow". The Doctor's Who's Who. 12. The Saalfield Publishing Co.
- ^ "Vanderbilt". Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. 20: 377. 1905.
- ^ Myles P. O'Connor (1904). "An All-K.S. Football Team". Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. 19: 211.
- ^ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Garrels' Big Run Brings Victory". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 4, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved March 24, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dan Blake". Hopkinsville Kentuckian. October 1, 1912. p. 4.
