Position Guard Class Graduate | College Sewanee (1899–1900) Name Wild Claiborne | |
Date of birth (1872-12-11)December 11, 1872 Place of birth Amherst County, Virginia Date of death January 7, 1933(1933-01-07) (aged 60) | ||
William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne (December 11, 1872 – January 7, 1933) was a college football player and Episcopal priest.
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College football
Claiborne attended Roanoke College from 1893 to 1895. Claiborne was a prominent guard for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of Tennessee. He played on the 1899 "Iron Men" who won five road games in six days and all by shutout, selected All-Southern. Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation on the field. At Sewanee Claiborne studied theology and was ordained priest in 1901.
Religious work
He was a member of the Missionary Society. He was called the "apostle of the mountain folk" for his work among Tennessee mountain people. He founded the St. Andrew's School for Mountain Boys, refounded St. Mary's School, and established Emerald-Hogston Hospital. Claiborne wrote a book titled Boy in the Mountains.