Ole Miss Rebels | |
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Position | Center |
Class | Graduate |
Major | Medicine |
Personal information | |
Born: | Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S. | March 2, 1887
Died: | August 28, 1969 Natchez, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 82)
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
Career history | |
College | Ole Miss (1909–1912) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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John Charles "Red" Adams (March 2, 1887 – August 28, 1969) [1] was an American college football player and physician.
He was a prominent center for the Ole Miss Rebels football team of the University of Mississippi. [2] Adams was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. [3]
Adams was captain of the 1912 team. He was selected All-Southern by Nathan Stauffer of Collier's Weekly. [4] [5]
During World War I, he worked for Standard Oil in Maricopa, California. [6] He was later a doctor in Greenwood. [7] In 1924, he married Vivian Muller in New Orleans. [8]