Alf Reid

{{Short description|American football player and chemist}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college football player

|school=LSU Tigers

|pastschools=LSU (1912–1915)

|birth_place=Lake Charles, Louisiana

|currentposition=Fullback

|highlights=

• All-Southern (1913)

}}

Alfred J. Reid was a college football player and chemist.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CU5KAQAAMAAJ|title=Louisiana Sugar News|journal=The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer|date=1 January 1917|volume=59|page=105|publisher=LouisianaPlanter and Sugar Manufacturer Company|via=Google Books}} A native of Lake Charles,{{cite web|url=http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/FTBooks/ferguson.htm |title=The History of Lake Charles by Stewart Alfred Ferguson |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029124846/http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/FTBooks/ferguson.htm |archive-date=2014-10-29 }} he was a prominent fullback for the LSU Tigers. He was selected All-Southern in 1913.{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=December 2, 1913|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1909692//|title=Composite All-Southern Eleven Chosen By Eighteen Dopesters|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=March 3, 2015}} {{Open access}} He was captain of the 1915 team.{{cite news|url=http://www.leofrank.org/library/atlanta-constitution-issues/1914/atlanta-constitution-december-19-1914-saturday-14-pages-combined.pdf|title=Alf Reid Is Captain of Louisiana Eleven|work=Atlanta Constitution|page=10|date=December 19, 1914}}