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Peggy Flournoy - Wikipedia

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Peggy Flournoy
Tulane Green Wave

Position	Halfback
Personal information
Born:	(1904-01-17)January 17, 1904 Canton, Mississippi, U.S.
Died:	October 7, 1972(1972-10-07) (aged 68) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Career history
College	Tulane (1923–1925)
High school	Rugby Academy
Career highlights and awards
First-team All-American (1925) 2× All-Southern (1924, 1925) Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame

Charles Priestley "Peggy" Flournoy (January 17, 1904 – October 7, 1972) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He was the first Tulane football player selected as a first-team All-American. In 1925, he led the nation in scoring with 128 points, a school record not broken until 2007 by Matt Forte.

Early years

Flournoy attended high school at the Rugby Academy.

Playing career

He played college football at the halfback position for the Tulane Green Wave football team from 1923 to 1925.^[1] He stood 6 feet, 1 inch, weighed 165 pounds, and wore number 15. As a senior in 1925, Flournoy led Tulane to an undefeated season and led the nation in scoring with 128 points.^[2] At the end of the 1925 season, he was selected by Billy Evans and Norman E. Brown as a first-team halfback on their 1925 College Football All-America Teams.^[3]^[4] He was also named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press and the All-America Board.^[5]^[6] He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 1968.^[2] He died in New Orleans in 1972.^[7]

One account reads "In the South they call "Peggy" Flournoy of Tulane University, the greatest all-round gridder in that section."^[8]

Coaching career

Flournoy assisted his alma mater's football team in 1926, and was the baseball coach in 1928.

References

^ "Tulane Gridders Striking Hard Pace; Flournoy Wins Praise of Sports Writers". The Monrow News-Star. November 7, 1925. p. 6. Retrieved November 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Charles "Peggy" Flournoy". Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
^ Evans, Billy (December 5, 1925). "Here's Billy Evans' All-Americans". The Fitchburg Sentinel.
^ Brown, Norman E. (December 7, 1925). "Here Are Brown's All-American Selections: All Sections of Country On Writer's All-American". Galveston County Daily News.
^ "Associated Press Announces All-American Teams". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. December 14, 1925.
^ Tad Jones; Knute Rockne & Glenn Warner (December 4, 1925). "Red Grange Placed on Second All-American Team: Coaches Keep Star Off First: Rockne, Jones and Warner Claim He Has Two Main Weak Points; Friedman Is Captain; Two Michigan Men Honored; Pacific Coast Stars in the Backfield". The Davenport Democrat.
^ "Football All-Americans". Tulane University. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
^ ""Peggy" Flournoy Rates High in Southern Grid Circles". Reno Evening Gazette. November 30, 1925.

Tulane Green Wave head baseball coaches

J. P. Clinton (1892–1893)
Jack Dowling & T. L. Bayne (1894–1895)
No team (1896)
F. B. Manis (1897–1898)
Unknown (1899–1901)
H. T. Summersgill (1902)
Thomas Willis (1903–1905)
J. Richard (1906–1907)
No team (1908–1909)
Unknown (1910)
Bruce Hays (1911–1915)
Unknown (1916)
No team (1917–1918)
John Gondolfi (1919)
No team (1920–1922)
Bruce Hays (1923)
Claude Simons Sr. (1924–1927)
Peggy Flournoy (1928)
Unknown (1929)
Ted Bank (1930)
No team (1931)
Ted Bank (1932)
No team (1933–1936)
Bill Vegan (1937)
Claude Simons Jr. (1938–1941)
Robert Kellog (1942)
Claude Simons Jr. (1943–1949)
John Reed (1950–1951)
Dennis Vinzant (1952–1954)
Ben Abadie (1955–1957)
Mel Parnell (1958)
Bob Whitman (1959)
Jack Orsley (1960–1961)
Doug Hafner (1962–1963)
Ben Abadie (1964–1966)
Milt Retif (1967–1974)
Joe Brockhoff (1975–1993)
Rick Jones (1994–2014)
David Pierce (2015–2016)
Travis Jewett (2017–2022)
Jay Uhlman # (2022)

# denotes interim head coach

v t e 1925 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Pooley Hubert HB Peggy Flournoy HB Johnny Mack Brown FB Doug Wycoff
Line	E J. G. Lowe E Smack Thompson T Bob Rives T Goldy Goldstein G Bill Buckler G Milton Levy C Amos Kent

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