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Tulane Green Wave — No. N/A | |
Halfback | |
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Date of birth: | January 17, 1904|
Place of birth: Canton, Mississippi | |
Career history | |
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High school: Rugby Academy | |
College(s): Tulane (1923–1925) | |
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* First-team All-American (1925)
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Charles Priestley "Peggy" Flournoy (January 17, 1904 – October 7, 1972) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He was the first Tulane football player selected first-team All-American. In 1925, he led the nation in scoring with 128 points, a school record not broken until 2007 by Matt Forte.
Early years[]
Flournoy attended high school at the Rugby Academy.
Playing career[]
He played college football at the halfback position for the Tulane Green Wave football team from 1923 to 1925.[1] He stood 6 feet, 1 inch, weighed 165 pounds, and wore number 15. As a senior in 1925, Flournoy led Tulane to an undefeated season and led the nation in scoring with 128 points.[2] At the end of the 1925 season, he was selected by Billy Evans and Norman E. Brown as a first-team halfback on their 1925 College Football All-America Teams.[3][4] He was also named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press and the All-America Board.[5][6] He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 1968.[2] He died in New Orleans in 1972.[7]
One account reads "In the South they call "Peggy" Flournoy of Tulane University, the greatest all-round gridder in that section."[8]
Coaching career[]
Flournoy assisted his alma mater's football team in 1926, and was the baseball coach in 1928.
See also[]
- List of NCAA major college football yearly scoring leaders
References[]
- ↑ "Tulane Gridders Striking Hard Pace; Flournoy Wins Praise of Sports Writers". The Monrow News-Star: p. 6. November 7, 1925. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3537769/the_monroe_newsstar/. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Charles "Peggy" Flournoy". Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. http://www.lasportshall.com/inductees/football/charles-peggy-flournoy/?back=inductee. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
- ↑ Evans, Billy (1925-12-05). "Here's Billy Evans' All-Americans". The Fitchburg Sentinel.
- ↑ Brown, Norman E. (1925-12-07). "Here Are Brown's All-American Selections: All Sections of Country On Writer's All-American". Galveston County Daily News.
- ↑ "Associated Press Announces All-American Teams". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. 1925-12-14.
- ↑ Tad Jones; Knute Rockne; Glenn Warner (1925-12-04). "Red Grange Placed on Second All-American Team: Coaches Keep Star Off First: Rockne, Jones and Warner Claim He Has Two Main Weak Points; Friedman Is Captain; Two Michigan Men Honored; Pacific Coast Stars in the Backfield". The Davenport Democrat.
- ↑ "Football All-Americans". Tulane University. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150205043656/http://www.tulane.edu/~athletic/FB/FBHIST/FBALL-AMER.HTML. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
- ↑ ""Peggy" Flournoy Rates High in Southern Grid Circles". Reno Evening Gazette. November 30, 1925.
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