Sheldon Fitts
 Fitts, c. 1920 | |
| No. 31 – Georgia Bulldogs | |
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| Positions | Quarterback, halfback |
| Personal information | |
| Born | November 1, 1899 Jemison, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | October 26, 1985 (aged 85) Marion, Alabama, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| High school | Georgia Military College |
| College | Georgia (1920) |
| Awards and highlights | |
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Sheldon Fitts (November 1, 1899 – October 26, 1985) was an American college football player and lawyer.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Fitts was born in 1899 in Jemison, Alabama.[1] He prepped at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville.[2] Fitts had a half-sister, author Mary Ward Brown.[2]
Fitts played as a quarterback and halfback for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia, a member of the "ten second backfield"[a] of 1920. Fitts caught the pass to beat Furman[4] and starred in the 56–0 win over Florida.[5][6]
While at Georgia, Fitts was also a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity,[7]: 156 and played as a center fielder on the Bulldogs baseball team.[7]: 271 He was awarded varsity letters in both football and baseball.[8]: 334 Georgia lists Fitts as only earning a football letter for the 1920 season,[9] with contemporary newspaper reports from the 1921 season noting that he was unable to play due to a knee injury.[10] While he was reported to have returned to the team in October 1922,[11] there are no contemporary accounts of him playing again for Georgia.
Fitts went on to become an attorney.[12] At the time of his death in 1985, he was a resident of Marion, Alabama.[12][13] He was survived by a son, Sheldon Jr.,[12] and predeceased by his wife, Frances, who died in 1984.[14]
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- 1899 births
- 1985 deaths
- Sportspeople from Chilton County, Alabama
- Players of American football from Chilton County, Alabama
- American football quarterbacks
- American football halfbacks
- Georgia Bulldogs football players
- Georgia Bulldogs baseball players
- People from Marion, Alabama
- Alabama lawyers
- 20th-century American sportsmen