17 Facts About Irby Curry

Irby Rice "Rabbit" Curry was an American football quarterback for Vanderbilt University from 1914 to 1916.

Irby Curry was selected as a first-team All-Southern player in 1915 and 1916 and a third-team All-American in 1916.

Irby Curry attended Marlin High School, where he was a stand-out athlete.

Irby Curry weighed only 130 pounds while playing football for Vanderbilt.

Irby Curry was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the Delta Sigma Delta medical fraternity.

The manager later recalled that Irby Curry ate many of the green apples and proceeded to score six touchdowns and kick eight goals after touchdown against Ole Miss.

Time after time Irby Curry made 10,15 and 20 yard gains, and his work was largely responsible for Vanderbilt's victory.

In December 1915, Irby Curry's teammates elected him captain of the 1916 Vanderbilt football team.

Irby Curry would have graduated with Vanderbilt's Class of 1918, but he enlisted in the military when the United States entered World War I in 1917.

Irby Curry joined the 95th Aero Squadron in the village of Saints as a pilot, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant.

Irby Curry was wounded and went into a tight spiral and to land.

Irby Curry never gained strength to come out of the spiral and crashed to the earth.

Irby Curry's classmate downed a plane and landed to get the German, but landed on German soil and was captured.

Nine out of eighteen of Irby Curry's squad were killed, The Germans suffered greater than the Americans.

Irby Curry had a lion's heart, and now a hero's death.

Irby Curry's remains were initially buried at Atz, France, but were subsequently removed to a military cemetery at Chateau-Thierry.

In 1930, a newspaper account reported on the special place that Irby Curry maintained in McGugin's memory:.