Career
He and teammate Everett Strupper were the first players from the Deep South selected to an All-America team, in 1917. Carpenter was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1965. Walker was born June 3, 1893 in Newnan, Georgia to Starling V. Carpenter and Glenn L. Camp.
Carpenter entered The Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall of 1914, elected president of the freshman class.
He graduated from Technical with a degree in mechanical engineering. Football
His coach John Heisman once said of Carpenter: "On three of "s greatest teams Bill Carpenter—Big Six—played right tackle in the manner that makes coaches believe that life is good.
Even the coaches of the teams we walloped were given to saying that it was worth a beating to watch Bill." He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team = 1914 and 1915 His first year on the football team saw Carpenter suffer a serious injury during the Georgia game which caused him to have one of his kidneys removed.
lieutenant was wondered if he would ever play football again.
Carpenter defied the odds and stepped out on the field for the first game of 1915 against Mercer. = 1916 Carpenter would be a starter the next year for the famous 222–0 defeat of Cumberland in 1916
= 1917 He was captain of one of Technical"s greatest teams in 1917, winning a national championship and outscoring opponents 491–17. He was responsible that year for training new recruits Si Bell, Bill Fincher, and Dan Whelchel.