Buck Flowers
Flowers in 1920
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| Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | |
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| Position | Halfback |
| Class | 1920 |
| Career history | |
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| High school | Sumter |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | March 26, 1899 |
| Place of birth | Sumter, South Carolina |
| Date of death | April 8, 1983 (aged 84) |
| Place of death | Birmingham, Alabama |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Weight | 155 lb (70 kg) |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (1955) | |
Allen Ralph "Buck" Flowers, Jr. (March 26, 1899 – April 8, 1983) was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Davidson Wildcats football team of Davidson College in 1917 and for the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1918, 1919 and 1920.
A triple threat, Flowers also handled punting and drop kicks. Coach William Alexander said Flowers was the best punter Tech ever had and the best back he ever coached, calling him "pound for pound, my greatest player". As a safety on defense, no player ever got past Flowers for a touchdown.
In 1955, he became the first Georgia Tech football player to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Flowers was also selected as a halfback on an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869–1919 era.
Flowers was born in Sumter, South Carolina, in 1899, the son of Allen Ralph Flowers, Sr. and M. Bettie (Cain) Flowers. He attended Sumter High School. As a senior in 1916, Flowers played for a Sumter team that lost only one game. He later recalled, "I only weighed 115 pounds when I was in high school. I did all of the kicking but didn't run very much because I was so small". He is considered the greatest athlete to come out of Sumter, at least before Freddie Solomon.
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