16 Facts About Frank Juhan

Frank Juhan played center for the Sewanee Tigers football team and was the first roving linebacker in the South, analogous to Germany Schulz's status in football history nationally.

Frank Juhan was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966, and is a charter member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and a member of the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame.

Frank Juhan graduated from West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio, Texas, in 1907.

Frank Juhan played baseball, ran track, and was a boxing champion at Sewanee: The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of Tennessee.

Frank Juhan was a member of the 1909 football team, which won a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title.

That year, Frank Juhan was put on Walter Camp's All-America honorable mention.

Frank Juhan was selected for his position on George Trevor's all-time Sewanee football team.

Frank Juhan was a charter member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

Frank Juhan was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity on campus, and Bishop's Commons on central campus is named after him.

Frank Juhan assisted his alma mater's football team from 1913 to 1915.

Frank Juhan married Vera Louise MacKnight Spencer on January 3,1912, and together they had a daughter and two sons.

Frank Juhan then became the Chaplain at the West Texas Military Academy and priest-in-charge of Goliad, Texas and Beeville, Texas.

Frank Juhan was consecrated the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida on November 25,1924, by Presiding Bishop Ethelbert Talbot.

Frank Juhan was the youngest diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church at the time of his consecration, and the senior active bishop in the church when he retired in 1956.

Frank Juhan became Chancellor of the University of the South in 1944, a post he retained till 1950.

Frank Juhan served as Director of Development for Sewanee after 1956.