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Sport(s)
  
College football

Name
  
Sam Honaker

1906-1909
  
Virginia

Role
  
American football player


1911
  
Richmond

Overall
  
0-6-2

Positions
  
Quarterback

Born
  
March 14, 1887 Tampa, Florida (
1887-03-14
)

Died
  
March 21, 1966, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Alma mater
  
University of Virginia

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Samuel William Honaker (March 14, 1887 – March 21, 1966) was an American football player and coach and consul general.

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Early years

Honaker was born in Tampa, Florida in 1887 but grew up in Plano, Texas. He spent two years at Bingham Preparatory School in Asheville, North Carolina and five at the University of Virginia.

University of Virginia

He graduated from UVA in 1913.

Football

Honaker was a quarterback for the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia, remembered as one of its "great" ones; "a diminutive quarterback who thrilled the crowds with his brilliant broken-field running."

1907

"A well known New York authority on sports" selected Honaker for his All-Southern team in 1907. Walter Camp gave him honorable mention on his All-America teams.

1908

The Cavaliers won a Southern title in 1908.

1909

Virginia won a share of another title in 1909. Honaker was captain of the '09 team. Kemper Yancey was a teammate.

Coaching career

He was the head college football coach for the University of Richmond Spiders located in Richmond, Virginia for the 1911 season. His career coaching record at Richmond was 0 wins, 6 losses, and 2 ties.

Consul general

Honaker later joined the United States Foreign Service, serving as consul general in Istanbul, Turkey at one point. He was also the consul general in Stuttgart, Germany in 1935.

References

Sam Honaker Wikipedia