John Vaughn Blake

John Vaughn Blake
Vanderbilt Commodores
Position End
Class Graduate
Career history
College Vanderbilt (19051908)
Personal information
Date of birth 1888
Place of birth Texas
Date of death June 29, 1964(1964-06-29) (aged 75–76)
Place of death Nashville, Tennessee
Weight 160 lb (73 kg)
Career highlights and awards

John Vaughn Blake (1888 June 29, 1964) was a former American football player and FBI agent. He played football for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams with his brothers Dan and Bob. Dan, Bob, and Vaughn were captains of the 1906, 1907, and 1908 respectively. Vaughn was an end on the football team, selected All-Southern in 1908.[1] He was later an FBI agent involved with the capture of Alvin Karpis.[2]

Early years

Blake was born in 1888 in Texas to Daniel Bigelow Blake, Sr. and Mary Clara Weldon. Dan, Sr. was a physician and once president of the Nashville Academy of Medicine.[3]

References

  1. Spalding's Football Guide. 1909. p. 75.
  2. Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Barker/Karpis Gang". p. 18.
  3. Charles Wells Moulton (1906). "Blake, Daniel Bigelow". The Doctor's Who's Who (The Saalfield Publishing Co) 12.


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