Jump to content

Vaughn Stewart: Difference between revisions

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Monkbot (talk | contribs)
Bots
3,695,952 edits
m →top: Task 16: replaced (1×) / removed (0×) deprecated |dead-url= and |deadurl= with |url-status=;
Line 25: Line 25:
| career_highlights =
| career_highlights =
| NFL = STE811668
| NFL = STE811668
}}'''Vaughn Morton Stewart''', (born January 16, 1919<ref>[http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=STEWAVAU01 "Vaughn Stewart"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024556/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=STEWAVAU01 |date=September 30, 2007 }} at DatabaseFootball.com</ref> - died December 18, 1992<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ |title=Social Security Death Index |access-date=December 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6CuO8qWBF?url=http://searches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ssdi.html |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) a native of [[Anniston, Alabama]], was a collegiate and professional football player.
}}'''Vaughn Morton Stewart''', (January 16, 1919<ref>[http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=STEWAVAU01 "Vaughn Stewart"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024556/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=STEWAVAU01 |date=September 30, 2007 }} at DatabaseFootball.com</ref> — December 18, 1992<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ |title=Social Security Death Index |access-date=December 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6CuO8qWBF?url=http://searches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ssdi.html |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) a native of [[Anniston, Alabama]], was a collegiate and professional football player.


==Football career==
==Football career==
Line 38: Line 38:
* Bear Bryant Museum, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
* Bear Bryant Museum, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}

{{1941 Alabama Crimson Tide football navbox}}


{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Vaughn}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Vaughn}}
Line 43: Line 45:
[[Category:1992 deaths]]
[[Category:1992 deaths]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Anniston, Alabama]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Anniston, Alabama]]
[[Category:Players of American football from Alabama]]
[[Category:American football centers]]
[[Category:American football centers]]
[[Category:Alabama Crimson Tide football players]]
[[Category:Alabama Crimson Tide football players]]
Line 49: Line 52:
[[Category:Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) players]]
[[Category:Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) players]]
[[Category:Brooklyn Tigers players]]
[[Category:Brooklyn Tigers players]]



{{offensive-lineman-1910s-stub}}
{{offensive-lineman-1910s-stub}}

Revision as of 22:17, 1 June 2020

Vaughn Morton Stewart
Date of birth(1919-01-16)January 16, 1919
Place of birthAnniston, Alabama, United States
Date of deathDecember 18, 1992(1992-12-18) (aged 73)
Place of deathHuntsville, Alabama, United States
Career information
Position(s)Center / Linebacker
Height6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight190 lb (86 kg)
US collegeUniversity of Alabama
Career history
As player
1943Chicago Cardinals
1943Brooklyn Dodgers
1944Brooklyn Tigers
Career stats

Vaughn Morton Stewart, (January 16, 1919[1] — December 18, 1992[2]) a native of Anniston, Alabama, was a collegiate and professional football player.

Football career

Stewart was named to the All-State team while playing at Anniston High School. He played college football for the University of Alabama where he was named was honorable mention, All-SEC on the sophomore selection. Stewart played on the 1941 Crimson Tide National Championship team. At just 165 pounds, he was the smallest center to ever play football at Alabama.[3]

In 1943 he was selected as a center by the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League.[4] He played nine games in 1943 for Chicago as a center and a linebacker before being traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers before the last game of the season.[5] He played one game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943 and nine games for the renamed Brooklyn Tigers in 1944 before leaving the NFL.[6]

After football

Stewart was the original co-chairman of the board for the Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame. This hall of fame for athletes from Madison County was founded in 1989 thanks to his efforts.[3] Stewart himself was inducted into the hall of fame in 1990.[7] He died in 1992 in Huntsville, Alabama.

References

  • Bear Bryant Museum, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  1. ^ "Vaughn Stewart" Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine at DatabaseFootball.com
  2. ^ "Social Security Death Index". Archived from the original on December 14, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame site
  4. ^ "The NFL Draft", Alabama Football 2006
  5. ^ "Vaughn Stewart", Football @ JT-SW.com
  6. ^ "1944 Brooklyn Tigers Stats", Football @ JT-SW.com
  7. ^ Huntsville-Madison County Athletic HOF Member page for Vaughn Stewart
Stub icon

This biographical article relating to an American football offensive lineman born in the 1910s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Vaughn_Stewart&oldid=960243775"