Career
Speer was an All-American tackle for the Georgia Technical Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Participant of its national championship team of 1928. He first made the All-Southern team as a sophomore in 1927.
Speer once lost in a wrestling match with Bronko Nagurski due to a kneeing foul.
On June 1, 1938, Speer became ill but still participated in a wrestling match with Dorv Roche at Atlanta"s Warren Arena. Following the match, he developed a fever and was taken to a hospital, where he died June 10 of bronchial pneumonia.
He is interred at Atlanta"s Hollywood Cemetery.
