Gordon Holmes | |
Birth Date: | 1905 |
Birth Place: | Springville, Alabama, U.S. |
Death Place: | Fairfield, Alabama, U.S. |
Currentposition: | Center |
School: | Alabama Crimson Tide |
Pastschools: | Alabama (1924 - 1926) |
Class: | Graduate |
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Gordon Forrest "Sherlock" Holmes (1905 – August 8, 1963) was a college football player.
Holmes was an All-Southern center for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of the University of Alabama,[1] a member of the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl. He got a case of appendicitis en route to the second one while in El Paso,[2] and was left there with the idea of Babe Pearce filling in for Holmes. Holmes let his doctors know he would catch the next train to Pasadena.[3] [4] The team's roster lists him as from Springville, Alabama.[5]
He died on August 8, 1963.[6]