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{{Infobox college football player |
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|name=William O. Lowe |
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|school=Tennessee Volunteers |
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|birth_date={{birth date|1894|5|23}} |
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|birth_place=[[Loudon County, Tennessee]] |
|birth_place=[[Loudon County, Tennessee]] |
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|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1949|3|12|1894|5|23}} |
|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1949|3|12|1894|5|23}} |
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|death_place=[[Fountain City, Tennessee]] |
|death_place=[[Fountain City, Tennessee]] |
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|class=Graduate |
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|pastschools=[[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] (1914–1916; 1919) |
|pastschools=[[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] (1914–1916; 1919) |
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*[[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association|SIAA]] championship (1914, 1916) |
*[[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association|SIAA]] championship (1914, 1916) |
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*[[College Football All-Southern Team|All-Southern]] ([[1916 College Football All-Southern Team|1916]]) |
*[[College Football All-Southern Team|All-Southern]] ([[1916 College Football All-Southern Team|1916]]) |
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*1891-1919 All Tennessee team |
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'''William Oscar "Chink" Lowe''' (May 23, 1894 – March 12, 1949) was |
'''William Oscar "Chink" Lowe''' (May 23, 1894 – March 12, 1949) was an American [[college football]] player. He later served as the first commissioner of the [[Smoky Mountain Conference]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9816258/smc_lowe_interview_1939/ |title=TWO BITS' WORTH |first=Bill |last=Tobitt |url-access=limited |newspaper=[[Oakland Tribune]] |via=newspapers.com |date=August 13, 1939 |access-date=March 26, 2017}}</ref> |
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==Early years== |
==Early years== |
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William Oscar Lowe was born on May 23, 1894 in [[Loudon County, Tennessee]] to Jesse Grant Lowe and Margaret Anna Alexander.<ref>http://www.knoxlib.org/sites/default/files/delayedbirthregistrations.pdf</ref> His father was a teacher.<ref>https://archive.org/stream/recordofalumnico1896meth/recordofalumnico1896meth_djvu.txt</ref> |
William Oscar Lowe was born on May 23, 1894 in [[Loudon County, Tennessee]] to Jesse Grant Lowe and Margaret Anna Alexander.<ref>http://www.knoxlib.org/sites/default/files/delayedbirthregistrations.pdf</ref> His father was a teacher.<ref>https://archive.org/stream/recordofalumnico1896meth/recordofalumnico1896meth_djvu.txt</ref> |
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| Position | Guard |
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| Born: | May 23, 1894 Loudon County, Tennessee |
| Died: | March 12, 1949 (aged 54) Fountain City, Tennessee |
| Career history | |
| College | Tennessee (1914–1916; 1919) |
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William Oscar "Chink" Lowe (May 23, 1894 – March 12, 1949) was an American college football player. He later served as the first commissioner of the Smoky Mountain Conference.[1]
Early years
William Oscar Lowe was born on May 23, 1894 in Loudon County, Tennessee to Jesse Grant Lowe and Margaret Anna Alexander.[2] His father was a teacher.[3]
University of Tennessee
Chink Lowe was a prominent guard for the Tennessee Volunteers football team of the University of Tennessee. Lowe and his three brothers (Andy Lowe, J. G. Lowe, and Ted Lowe) all played for Tennessee.[4] Lowe was a substitute for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) champion 1914 team. Two years later, Lowe was an All-Southern selection for the SIAA co-champion 1916 team.[5] He was elected captain of the next year's team;[6] however, the university suspended varsity football during 1917 and 1918 due to players being called into military service. In the 1980s, Lowe was selected for an 1891–1919 All Tennessee team.[7]
World War 1
Lowe served in the First World War as an observer and gunner in the Army's fledgling aviation corps. attached to the Army as a marine.[4] Lowe enrolled as a provisional second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve the day after his 23rd birthday, later serving with the 90th Aero Squadron. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross.[8] Lowe shot down one German plane and disabled another. Later, on the same mission, he was attacked by five planes and still managed to complete his mission.[9]
References
- ^ Tobitt, Bill (August 13, 1939). "TWO BITS' WORTH". Oakland Tribune. Retrieved March 26, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ http://www.knoxlib.org/sites/default/files/delayedbirthregistrations.pdf
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/recordofalumnico1896meth/recordofalumnico1896meth_djvu.txt
- ^ a b "Volunteer Warrior". University of Tennessee Alumni Magazine.
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"All-Southern Football Team As Picked By Sport Writers". Augusta Chronicle. December 3, 1916.
- ^ "Lowe Leads Tennessee". The Charlotte News. December 14, 1916. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Fields, Bud; Bertucci, Bob (1982). "1891-1919 All Tennessee". Big Orange: A Pictorial History of University of Tennessee Football: 54. ISBN 9780880110716.
- ^ https://history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH103(W).pdf
- ^ Lowell, A. Lawrence (January 1, 1997). New England Aviators, 1914-1918: Their Portraits and Their Records. Schiffer Pub. ISBN 9780764303456 – via Google Books.