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repeatedly completed short passes. At the 10, Groves dropped back. The pass from center was low. He missed it. He reached for the ball. It trickled off his fingers. The
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To open the second half, Waller fumbled the kickoff. The
Marines recovered and were already near the goal. The Commodores' line held the Marines scoreless inside the 10-yard line on three separate occasions, mostly due to Wakefield, Bob Ledyard, and Jess Keene.
463:. Reese had hurt his knee, and during the previous week's game against the Texas Longhorns, Kuhn was hit on the head and had yet to regain his mental composure. Vanderbilt won 17–0. Wakefield contributed a field goal to the 51–7 drubbing of the
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school: "Wakefield chose his plays with excellent judgement. His tackling forced the
Gophers frequently to take time out, and he repeatedly threw Minnesota back for losses", reported the
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tackles aside as he would throw sacks of straw, and trampled great names into the turf." Twenty-five years later,
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3–0 with a 37-yard drop-kick field goal. He also played every minute of an inspired game against
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1921 Vanderbilt Commodores football—national champions
1002:"Big Gains Are Made On Punts And Wide Runs In Dallas Game."
837:"City loses Fitzgerald-Clarke, builds Tullahoma High School"
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champions. Wakefield made seven extra points on the year.
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Henry Wakefield – championships, awards and honors
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1922 Vanderbilt Commodores football—national champions
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1245:"Wolf Pack, U.C. Grid-Game Held Season Feature".
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1410:Rice, Grantland (September 15, 1949).
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3011:All-American college football players
1046:"Sewanee Loses To Vanderbilt, 26–0".
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1657:, Vanderbilt yearbook. 1926, p. 110.
760:List of Vanderbilt University people
1737:"Pay Last Tribute To Grand Old Man"
1023:. November 17, 1922. Archived from
888:Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football
856:Vanderbilt Football 2014 Fact Book
596:Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football
118:5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
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3041:Road incident deaths in Tennessee
1552:. The History Press. p. 83.
1376:Ben A. Green (December 6, 1923).
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2986:American football drop kickers
1412:"Charlie Was Versatile Fellow"
1226:Ed Hebert (October 27, 1923).
728:Post-coaching career and death
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1504:. History Press. p. 83.
1429:Keene, Jack (April 8, 1924).
786:"Hek Wakefield Funeral Today"
199:Vanderbilt's best drop kicker
44:Wakefield in uniform, c. 1924
1668:"1927 Vanderbilt Commodores"
372:. He was thus a starter for
218:player and coach. He played
212:Henry Smith "Hek" Wakefield
147:Career highlights and awards
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1780:. April 20, 1936. p. 8
1706:. June 21, 1929. p. 11
653:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
360:Wakefield was the starting
295:Wakefield played for coach
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1416:The Roundup Record Tribune
1152:. December 31, 1922. p. 6.
1006:. October 22, 1922, p. 14.
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202:1934 All-time Vandy team.
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1548:Traughber, Bill (2011).
1466:"Ball Player Kills Self"
1004:Fort Worth Star Telegram
126:180 lb (82 kg)
1623:Iowa City Press-Citizen
1150:Middletown Daily Herald
618:. In the game with the
447:reported that governor
2991:American football ends
1988:Preston Vaughn Overall
1470:Cleveland Plain Dealer
1326:Springfield Republican
1078:The Boston Daily Globe
669:. The final game with
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1576:(December 30, 1924).
1431:"Spotlights On Sport"
1348:Chicago Daily Tribune
1295:. December 30, 1923.
1291:"Champions of 1923".
1269:Chicago Daily Tribune
1168:"South's Premier End"
1134:. December 31, 1922.
1050:. December 14, 1922.
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549:professional baseball
483:ends. Vanderbilt and
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286:Vanderbilt University
252:Petersburg, Tennessee
232:Vanderbilt University
228:Vanderbilt Commodores
91:Petersburg, Tennessee
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2557:consensus selections
2406:composite selections
2255:composite selections
1700:"Hek Wakefield Shot"
1472:. December 12, 1924.
1350:. December 9, 1923.
1247:Nevada State Journal
1208:. November 27, 1923.
1111:. December 2, 1922.
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954:. November 25, 1921.
939:. November 25, 1921.
914:. November 25, 1921.
666:Nashville Tennessean
493:Champ Pickens Trophy
485:Washington & Lee
465:Tennessee Volunteers
272:Tullahoma, Tennessee
196:'s six best players.
108:Nashville, Tennessee
73:Personal information
2790:Bully Van de Graaff
2194:Assistant coaches:
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1399:. October 16, 1938.
1328:. December 9, 1923.
1249:. December 3, 1923.
1206:The Kingsport Times
1174:. November 30, 1923
1132:The Washington Post
1109:The Washington Post
1021:The Kentucky Kernel
734:Birmingham, Alabama
651:, and defeated the
600:Vanderbilt football
489:Southern Conference
414:Southern Conference
368:for the undefeated
266:Wakefield attended
242:in school history.
158:championship (1921)
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2150:Walter B. Rountree
1534:2018-11-26 at the
1293:Boston Daily Globe
1172:The News-Palladium
1048:The Sewanee Purple
952:Charlotte Observer
861:2014-08-19 at the
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1559:978-1-60949-423-0
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912:Augusta Chronicle
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430:national champion
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2782:Second team
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691:Walter Camp
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426:1923 season
424:During the
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297:Dan McGugin
268:prep school
262:Prep school
246:Early years
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2825:Lynn Bomar
2772:Lynn Bomar
2744:Red Weaver
2729:First team
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2615:Jim Lawson
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2114:Alvin Bell
2108:Alf Sharpe
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1946:Alvin Bell
1940:Jess Neely
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529:Herb Treat
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