37 Facts About Bradley Walker

Bradley Walker was named to an "All-Southern" team in 1900.

Bradley Walker set records at Virginia in baseball for the highest batting average over a two-year period.

When Bradley Walker moved to Nashville to practice law in 1903, he kept his interest in football and officiated football games, including major collegiate games, for 25 years.

Bradley Walker was president of the owners of the Nashville Vols baseball team for two years.

Bradley Walker was the first president of the Nashville Tennis Club and won the local championship several times.

Bradley Walker was the boxing champion of Nashville in 1899.

Bradley Walker won the Tennessee State Amateur Golf Championship, and won his local club championship six times, during which he became a friend and confidante of sportswriter Grantland Rice who had just begun playing the game.

Bradley Walker was born on October 14,1877, in Columbia, Tennessee, near Nashville.

Bradley Walker's father was William Overton Walker, a farmer and a lumberman.

Bradley Walker attended Columbia High School and later graduated from the University of Nashville's Peabody College with a teacher's certificate in 1897.

Bradley Walker played at the fullback and tackle positions for the Nashville football team, known as the "Garnet and Blue".

John Heisman, coach of the Auburn team who had defeated Nashville 14 to 4 two weeks later, said Bradley Walker was the best football player in the school's history, saying "I have no hesitation whatever in declaring that he was undoubtedly one of the twenty-five best men that Dixieland ever saw".

Bradley Walker received his bachelors degree in 1898 from the University of Nashville and received the school's "All-Around Athlete" medal.

In 1898, Bradley Walker entered a track meet at Vanderbilt and won the 100-yard dash with a time of 10.5 seconds; he came in second in the shot-put, the 440 yard dash, and the hammer throw.

Bradley Walker was the city boxing champion of Nashville in 1899 prior to leaving for Virginia.

Bradley Walker received his law degree at the University of Virginia in a two-year program, 1901 and 1902.

Bradley Walker starred in football, baseball, and track at the University of Virginia.

Bradley Walker was the star of the Washington and Lee game on opening day, called by one writer the "star football player of the South".

Bradley Walker scored a touchdown and kicked a 40-yard field goal in the win over rival VPI.

Bradley Walker was secretary of the Nashville Park Board from 1902 to 1910.

Bradley Walker began law practice in Nashville in 1903 with the firm of Champion, Brown and Akers.

Bradley Walker represented Tennessee Businessmen in the fight against sales tax and successfully represented merchants in opposing the use of convict labor.

Bradley Walker was a leader in organizing the Tennessee Taxpayers Association in 1932 and served on its board for 10 years.

Bradley Walker was the first president of the Nashville Tennis Club in 1903 and won the local championship several times.

In 1912, Bradley Walker was active in the Nashville Golf and Country Club and won the club golf championship in 1912,1914,1915,1916,1919, and 1928.

At age 37, Bradley Walker won Tennessee's first state amateur golf championship.

Bradley Walker continued to compete in this same annual tournament for the next 36 years, until 1950, when he was too busy campaigning for political office.

Years later Bradley Walker downplayed his state amateur golf victory saying, in effect, that he did not have any skilled young players competing with him back then.

Rice's report was favorable, and Bradley Walker hired George Livingstone on May 12,1912.

In 1914, when the club was moved to a new location, Bradley Walker served on the project committee, the golf course committee and was a long-time board member.

Bradley Walker married Ethel Mathews on December 17,1903, the daughter of publisher Andrew Francis Mathews of Nashville.

Ethel Bradley Walker became a pediatrician and was one of the notable alumni of the Peabody Demonstration School.

The Bradley Walker family had a summer home at Monteagle Assembly Grounds.

Bradley Walker died February 3,1951, in his apartment at 3415 West End Avenue in Nashville.

Bradley Walker had collapsed in his automobile a few minutes earlier, with his daughter, Dr Ethel Walker, in attendance.

Bradley Walker was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Eastern Star and served as district governor of the Tennessee Exchange Club.

Bradley Walker was a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity and a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.