17 Facts About Buck Flowers

Coach William Alexander said Flowers was the best punter Tech ever had and the best back he ever coached, calling him "pound for pound, my greatest player".

Buck Flowers was born in Sumter, South Carolina, in 1899, the son of Allen Ralph Buck Flowers, Sr.

Buck Flowers is considered the greatest athlete to come out of Sumter, at least before Freddie Solomon.

Buck Flowers enrolled at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina on a scholarship arranged by his Presbyterian minister.

Buck Flowers prevented Auburn from scoring with a tackle at the goal line.

In 1918, Buck Flowers enrolled at Georgia Tech where he played for the 1918,1919, and 1920 teams coached by John Heisman and Bill Alexander.

Buck Flowers had a 78-yard touchdown against Vanderbilt in the mud.

Records conflict as to Buck Flowers' rushing totals during the 1920 season.

Buck Flowers handled punting for Georgia Tech and led the country with an average of 49.4 yards per punt in 1920.

Captain Buck Flowers made a drop kick from 44 yards out.

Buck Flowers appeared in his final college football game on November 25,1920, as Georgia Tech defeated Auburn at Grant Field in Atlanta by a score of 34 to 0.

Buck Flowers scored three touchdowns in the game, including punt returns of 82 and 65 yards and a 33-yard run from scrimmage, and passed for a fourth touchdown.

Buck Flowers kicked a punt that went 65 yards in the air against Auburn.

The Atlanta Journal wrote that Buck Flowers was "flitting like a phantom, an undulating, rippling, chromatic phantom, over the whitewashed lines".

At the induction ceremony at Rutgers University, Buck Flowers was joined by approximately a dozen teammates from the 1920 Georgia Tech team.

Buck Flowers gave credit to his teammates and called his induction into the Hall of Fame his "greatest honor".

Buck Flowers died in 1983 at Birmingham, Alabama, at age 84.