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John Vaughn Blake

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Class
  
Graduate

Name
  
John Blake

Date of birth
  
1888

Role
  
American football player


Place of birth
  
Weight
  
73 kg

Positions
  
End

Date of death
  
June 29, 1964(1964-06-29) (aged 75–76)

Died
  
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

College
  
Vanderbilt University (1905–1908)

Place of death
  
Nashville, Tennessee

John Vaughn Blake (1888 – June 29, 1964) was a former American football player and FBI agent. He played football for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams with his brothers Dan and Bob. Dan, Bob, and Vaughn were captains of the 1906, 1907, and 1908 respectively. Vaughn was an end on the football team, selected All-Southern in 1908. He was later an FBI agent involved with the capture of Alvin Karpis.

Early years

Blake was born in 1888 in Texas to Daniel Bigelow Blake, Sr. and Mary Clara Weldon. Dan, Sr. was a physician and once president of the Nashville Academy of Medicine.

References

John Vaughn Blake Wikipedia


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