Ammie Sikes

Background

Ammie Sikes was born on July 26, 1892 in Smyrna, Tennessee to Jessie Sikes and Jennie James.

Career

Football

Sikes was a prominent fullback for Dan McGugin"s Vanderbilt Commodores of from 1911 to 1914. He was thrice selected All-Southern. Edwin Pope"s Football"s Greatest Coaches reads "A lightning-swift backfield of Lew Hardage, Wilson Collins, Ammie Sikes, and Ray Morrison pushed Vandy through 1911 with only a 9-8 loss to Michigan." The Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South.

The Commodores scored 100 points in both of its first two games.

= 1913 = 1914 Sikes was captain of the 1914 team He coached Montgomery Bell Academy in 1916 and to the state prep championship in 1917.

Achievements

• 1912 The 1912 team lost only to national champion Harvard and outscored opponents 393 to 19. On the 7 to 6 win over Tennessee in 1913, one account reads ""Red" Rainey shone for Tennessee, though he was later relegated to the side lines after a collision with one A. Sikes, Esq., otherwise known as the "Roaring Representative from Williamson.".

Connections

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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic