Jim Senter

Jim Senter

Senter c. 1915
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position	End
Class	Graduate
Career history
College	Georgia Tech (1914–1916)
Personal information
Date of birth	June 10, 1892
Place of birth	Clintwood, Virginia
Date of death	March, 1968
Place of death	New Orleans, Louisiana
Career highlights and awards
SIAA championship (1916) All-Southern (1914, 1915) Tech All-Era Team (John Heisman Era)

James Corbett "Jim" Senter (June 10, 1892 – March, 1968) was a college American football player.

Georgia Tech

American football

Senter was a prominent end for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology.^[1] he was selected for Tech's All-Era team of the Heisman era.^[2] He was selected All-Southern in 1914 and 1915.^[3]

Senter was a starter for the 1916 Georgia Tech team which, as one writer wrote, "seemed to personify Heisman".^[4] Senter played and scored in the 222–0 defeat of Cumberland University.^[5][6]

Baseball

He also pitched on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team.

Cornell

In 1918, he completed his ground school training in the school of aeronautics at Cornell.^[7]

References

1. "Football Team" (PDF).
2. "Georgia Tech Honors" (PDF). Georgia Tech Athletic Association. 2007. Retrieved September 30, 2007.
3. e. g. Dick Jemison (November 30, 1915). "Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters". Atlanta Constitution.
4. Heisman, John M. Heisman: The Man Behind the Trophy. p. 144.
5. Tom Perrin (1987). Football: a college history. p. 90.
6. "Tech-222, Cumberland-0".
7. "Jim Senter Honor Man At Cornell". Technique. February 12, 1918. p. 4.