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Position
  
Guard

Class
  
Graduate


Name
  
Dan Whelchel

College
  
Georgia Tech (1917–1919)

Date of birth
  
(1894-08-26)August 26, 1894

Date of death
  
March 1, 1988(1988-03-01) (aged 93)

Place of birth
  

Dan Whelchel (August 26, 1894 – March 1, 1988) was a college football player and fruit horticulturalist.

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Early years

Dan Whelchel was born in Dawson County, Georgia on August 26, 1894 to Jordan Davis Whelchel and Amanda Jane Palmour. At the time of his enrollment at Tech he was living in Ashburn, Georgia. Dan was a first cousin of All-Southern Georgia Bulldogs football player Hugh Whelchel.

Georgia Tech

Whelchel was a prominent guard for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

1917

He was a member of the school's first national championship team in 1917, having to join the American effort in the First World War before he got to celebrate.

Horticulturalist

Whelchel later was a fruit horticulturalist in Arkansas, specializing in nuts.

References

Dan Whelchel Wikipedia


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