Red Barron

Red Barron

Barron running behind Judy Harlan.
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position	Halfback
Class	1922
Career history
College	Georgia Tech (1918–1922)
Personal information
Date of birth	(1900-06-21)June 21, 1900
Place of birth	Clarkesville, Georgia
Date of death	October 4, 1982(1982-10-04) (aged 82)
Place of death	Atlanta
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Career highlights and awards
SoCon championship (1920, 1921, 1922) second-team All-American (1922) All-Southern (1919, 1920, 1921, 1922) All-Southern (baseball) (1921, 1922) Tech All-Era Team (William Alexander Era) Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame Georgia Sports Hall of Fame

David Irenus "Red" Barron (June 21, 1900 – October 4, 1982) was an American football and baseball player. Barron was a three-sport letterwinner at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In football, he was named second or third team All American twice, first-team All-Southern four times, and was an inductee to Tech's Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. He was also twice an All-Southern baseball player at Tech.

Barron was a prominent halfback for John Heisman and Bill Alexander's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football teams of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1918 to 1922. Former Tech fullback Sam Murray, who played as a substitute for later Tech back Doug Wycoff, was asked about a certain strong runner in the 1930s, "He's good. But if I were playing again, I would have one wish – never to see bearing down upon me a more fearsome picture of power than Judy Harlan blocking for Red Barron."

During the Cocking affair, Eugene Talmadge attempted to place Barron in a new position as vice president of his alma mater; the move was widely criticized by Georgia Tech alumni, and Barron subsequently declined to accept the position.

Barron played with a group of all-star collegians representing Coral Gables against Red Grange's traveling Chicago Bears. NFL league president Joseph Carr chose Barron for his All-star team of 1925.