33 Facts About Oliver Kuhn

Oliver Kuhn played guard on the basketball team and was a shortstop on the baseball team which won a 1921 conference championship.

Oliver Kuhn was selected All-Southern in baseball in 1921 and 1922.

Oliver Kuhn moved to Tampa after graduation, where he helped start the athletics program at the University of Tampa, and later notably led an effort to plant podocarpus trees in downtown Tampa.

Oliver Kuhn lost just a single game as MBA's starting quarterback.

In 1918, Oliver Kuhn played as an end on the freshman team at Notre Dame.

Oliver Kuhn was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and chaired the Vanderbilt University dances.

Oliver Kuhn quarterbacked Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt football teams from 1920 to 1923, after a year on the scrub team in 1919.

Oliver Kuhn had a 60-yard kick return, and accumulated 94 yards in all.

Oliver Kuhn was practically unstoppable by the Alabamians and, time after time, threatened to lead the team to victory.

Team captain Pink Wade did not play because of low back pain, and Oliver Kuhn substituted as captain.

The Tennessee coaches "never saw, in all the spying trips, such interference as the Commodores made yesterday for Doc Oliver Kuhn," remarked Blinkey Horn.

Oliver Kuhn started all but one game at quarterback, including a scoreless tie with Michigan in the inaugural game at Dudley Field.

Oliver Kuhn returned a kick for 44 yards against Kentucky, tackled by the last man before the end zone, but the half ended before the Commodores could score.

Curious hundreds of Bulldog supporters shuddered at the procession of Vandy giants as they strolled down the sidewalks, led by Huge Tot McCullough, with spry Froggy Miers and clever Doc Oliver Kuhn bringing up the rear.

Oliver Kuhn finished the season against Sewanee on Thanksgiving Day.

Oliver Kuhn featured in a second-quarter scoring drive, completing a 10-yard pass to Scotty Neill inside the five-yard line and faking his way through the line for a touchdown.

In late May 1923, Oliver Kuhn received the Porter Cup as Vanderbilt's best all-around athlete.

Oliver Kuhn was captain of the basketball team, president of the student council, president of Phi Kappa Psi and Hellenic president.

The Atlanta Journal said, "Doc Oliver Kuhn is captain and president of everything at Vanderbilt but the co-eds".

Oliver Kuhn returned a kickoff 80 yards in the season's first game, against the Howard Bulldogs.

Oliver Kuhn completed a 45-yard pass to Wakefield against Georgia, getting Vanderbilt to the four-yard line.

Oliver Kuhn lettered at guard for Vanderbilt's basketball team in 1922 and 1923.

Oliver Kuhn scored 10 points against the Citadel and four against Georgia.

Oliver Kuhn was a shortstop for the Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, including a claim to the 1921 SIAA championship.

Doc Oliver Kuhn is possibly the greatest ball player on the squad, due to his miraculous fielding around short this season.

Oliver Kuhn's hitting this season has been hard and timely, including a homer, four triples, and three doubles.

Oliver Kuhn was the only Vanderbilt baseball player named All-Southern by either Cliff Wheatley or Morgan Blake in 1922.

Oliver Kuhn married Nancy Lee Pierce at Lylehurst in Nashville, the home of Mr and Mrs R J Lyles, on October 27,1924.

Oliver Kuhn was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla and the University Club.

Oliver Kuhn was a charter member of the Merrymaker's Club, the Sword and Shield Club and the Tampa Quarterback Club, and was once president of the State and Tampa Exchange Club and the Tampa Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Oliver Kuhn aided the start of the athletics program at the University of Tampa.

Oliver Kuhn led an initiative to plant podocarpus trees in downtown Tampa, for which he was named Man of the Year a year before his death.

Oliver Kuhn died at his home in Tampa on October 8,1968.