Alf Sharpe
Alf circa 1922
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| Vanderbilt Commodores No. 3 | |
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| Position | Center |
| Class | Graduate |
| Career history | |
| College | Vanderbilt (1920–1923) |
| High school | Montgomery Bell Academy |
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| Date of birth | February 6, 1902 |
| Place of birth | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Date of death | November 1981 |
| Place of death | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
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Alfred D. Sharpe (February 6, 1902 – November 1981) was an American football player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University.
Alf was born in Nashville on February 6, 1902 to Vernon Hibbett Sharpe and Lorene Seleney Dandridge. Sharpe attended Montgomery Bell Academy with later Vanderbilt teammate Doc Kuhn. His younger brother Vernon Sharpe was also a Vanderbilt football player, selected All-Southern in 1927.
At Vanderbilt University, Sharpe was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. In an interview by Edwin Thomas Wood of Robert Penn Warren, Warren spoke of Sharpe:
Warren: When I was there [at Vanderbilt] we had some fine teams. There was Alf Sharp—he was an All-Southern center at one time. He looked like a badly formed pirate; he was really a menacing looking man. He was two years ahead of me, and then I taught his younger brother [Walter Sharp, who later taught at Vanderbilt. He was instrumental in founding the Department of Fine Arts, of which he was Chairman from 1955 to 1960] when brother came up one day and said, "You're not going to believe this, but I have documentation: my big brother was writing poems secretly the whole time he was here" So I saw the poems years later when the younger brother betrayed him.
Wood: Any good?
Sharpe was a prominent member of Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores from 1920 to 1923 as a center on teams which won three straight conference titles.
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