Career
Playing career
Wortham was a prominent fullback for the Tigers of the University of the South. = 1916 In 1916, Dick Jemison picked Bill Folger out of North Carolina as a halfback for his All-Southern team Jemison said had he constrained his selections to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Wortham would have taken his spot.
= 1917 In 1917, the year of Georgia Technical"s great backfield, he made the All-Southern teams of Dick Jemison, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution, Fred Digby, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item, and Zipp Newman, assistant sporting editor for the Birmingham News.
Also he drop-kicked a 27-yard field goal in a 3 to 3 tie at Alabama. Teaching career
After football he signed on to the university"s faculty to teach mathematics, history, tactics, and boxing.
