B. J. Lamb
{{Short description|American football player (1887–1928)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
|name=B. J. Lamb
|image=benjoelamb.png
|image_size=180px
|caption=Lamb cropped from 1908 team picture.
|birth_date={{birth date|1887|11|5}}
|birth_place=Eutaw, Alabama
|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1928|9|12|1887|11|5}}
|death_place=
|weight_lb=181
|school=Auburn Tigers
|currentposition=Tackle
|class=Graduate
|pastschools=Auburn (1908; 1910–1912)
|highlights=
- All-Southern (1911, 1912)
}}
Benjamin Joseph "Sheep" Lamb (November 5, 1887 – September 12, 1928) was a college football player.
Auburn University
Lamb was a prominent tackle for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University in 1908 and from 1910 to 1912. He was twice All-Southern.{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|title=Consolidated All-Southern Chosen by Ten Scribes; Eleven Like Innis Brown's|date=December 3, 1912|page=10}}
=1911=
In the 1911 game with Georgia, after disease had swept through the team, Reynolds Tichenor begged his team to win for Donahue, implying he was very sick indeed. Lamb led the attack, even with a broken hand from the week before, once late saying "We've fit this far. We ain't but a second or two to go. Now let's go fight'em some more." Lamb knocked three different centers unconscious en route to preserving a scoreless tie.{{cite book|title=SEC Football Trivia|author=Ernie Couch}} Lamb practiced tackling on trees.{{cite news|work=Gadsden Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19730825&id=Z7YfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jtcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=860,4546789|title=New Book On Auburn Is Most Informative|date=August 25, 1973}}
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Category:American football tackles
Category:Auburn Tigers football players
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:Players of American football from Alabama
Category:People from Eutaw, Alabama
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