Ike Williams (American football)

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Ike Williams
Ike Williams.jpg
Williams in 1925
No. 5
Position: Halfback, Quarterback, Kicker
Personal information
Born:(1902-04-23)April 23, 1902
Marshall, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died:April 18, 1988(1988-04-18) (aged 85)
Kettering, Ohio, U.S.
Height:5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school: Little Rock Central (AR)
College: Georgia Tech (1923–1925)
Career history
Career AFL / NFL statistics
Games played:10
Games started:9
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

Ivan Andy "Ike" Williams (April 23, 1902 – April 18, 1988) [1] [2] was an American gridiron football player of the 1920s. He played college football for Georgia Tech and later had a brief professional career.

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Biography

Williams was born in 1902 in Marshall, Oklahoma, [1] and attended Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. [3] He played high school football with his brother, Orval, [lower-alpha 1] and Doug Wycoff—all three entered the Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Tech). [5] Williams played for the Georgia Tech football team during the one-platoon system era, and was a three-time letterman (1923–1925). [6] [lower-alpha 2] Williams was primarily a halfback during his sophomore and junior seasons; he was named to the 1923 College Football All-Southern Team by John Francis of the Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky. [7] Williams played quarterback as a senior; he was also a placekicker. In the 1925 Georgia–Georgia Tech football rivalry game, a third-quarter field goal by Williams was the only scoring in the game, giving Georgia Tech a 3–0 victory. [8]

At Georgia Tech, Williams was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and the Delta Sigma Pi honorary fraternity; he was selected vice-president of his sophomore class, president of his junior class, and vice-president of his senior class; he also was a member of the school's glee club. [9]

Williams played professional football with the 1926 Newark Bears in the first American Football League (AFL), with several other former Georgia Tech players including Jimmy Brewster, Vaughan Connelly, and Wycoff. [10] He later played for the 1929 Staten Island Stapletons of the National Football League (NFL). [3] In his season with the Stapleton, he suffered a season-ending injury against the New York Giants. [11]

At the time he registered for the draft, in February 1942, Williams was living in Wayne, Michigan, and was working for Ford Motor Company. [2] In August 1942, he married Charlotte Bell Swingle of Urbana, Ohio. [12] Williams went on to own and operate a seed company in Urbana, and served as president of the Ohio Seed Association. [1] Williams died in 1988 at his residence in Kettering, Ohio; he was survived by his wife and two daughters. [1]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Orval Williams died in 1981. [4]
  2. ↑ He appears in the list of all-time George Tech letterwinners as I. A. Williams.

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  2. 1 2 "Draft Registration Card" . Selective Service System. February 1942. Retrieved March 18, 2024– via fold3.com.
  3. 1 2 "Ike Williams". profootballarchives.com. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016 – via Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Orval E. Williams". The Atlanta Journal . August 14, 1981. p. 3-C. Retrieved March 18, 2024– via newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Georgia Tech Gets Three Local Stars". Arkansas Gazette . Little Rock, Arkansas. September 1, 1922. p. 13. Retrieved March 18, 2024– via newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "All-Time Letterwinners" (PDF). Georgia Tech Football Information Guide. 2023. p. 254. Retrieved March 17, 2024– via ramblinwreck.com.
  7. ↑ "How Dixie Scribes Chose All-Southern Gridiron Team (cont'd)". Courier Journal . Louisville, Kentucky. December 2, 1923. p. Sports 3. Retrieved March 18, 2024– via newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Golden Tornado Defeats Georgia Football Team By Scoring Field Goal". The Atlanta Constitution . November 15, 1925. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ The Blue Print. Georgia School of Technology. 1926. p. 70. Retrieved March 18, 2024– via gatech.edu.
  10. ↑ Hawkins, Dick (December 12, 1926). "Hawk-Eye-ing Sports". The Atlanta Constitution . p. 4B. Retrieved March 17, 2024– via newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Gill, Bob (1994). "Just Staten Out On The Island: How Dan Blaine's Stapletons earned their shot at the NFL" (PDF). The Coffin Corner. Vol. 16, no. 3. p. 3 – via profootballresearchers.org.
  12. ↑ "Charlotte Bell Swingle, Ivan A. Williams Were Married On Sunday". Urbana Daily Citizen . Urbana, Ohio. August 19, 1942. p. 3. Retrieved March 18, 2024– via newspapers.com.
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