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Arthur Feagin

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Arthur Feagin
Auburn Tigers
PositionHalfback
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:(1878-03-07)March 7, 1878
Union Springs, Alabama, U.S.
Died:March 25, 1932(1932-03-25) (aged 54)
Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
Career history
CollegeAuburn (1899)
Career highlights and awards

Arthur Henry Feagin (March 7, 1878 – March 25, 1932) was an American college football player.

Auburn University

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Feagin was a prominent halfback for John Heisman's Auburn Tigers football teams of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. At Auburn he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.[1]

1899

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Feagin was captain[2][3] and All-Southern[4] in 1899. In Heisman's opinion this was his best team while at Auburn.[5] The team was the only one to score on Sewanee's "Iron Men." A report of the game says "Feagin is a player of exceptional ability, and runs with such force that some ground belongs to him on every attempt."[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Gamma Province". The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. 24: 66.
  2. ^ Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 55. ISBN 9780313284045.
  3. ^ "Team Captains" (PDF).
  4. ^ a b "All-Southern Football Team". Outing. 35. Outing Publishing Company: 533. 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
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