Hope Sadler

{{Short description|American football player (1882–1931)}}

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|image=HopeSadler.jpg

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|caption=Sadler in The Oroneean, 1903

|school=Clemson Tigers

|class=Graduate

|birth_date={{Birth date|1882|10|12}}

|birth_place=York County, South Carolina

|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1931|8|29|1882|10|12}}

|death_place=Rock Hill, South Carolina

|currentposition=End

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|weight_lb=154

|pastschools=Clemson (1900–1903)

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David Hope Sadler (October 12, 1882 – August 29, 1931)South Carolina. South Carolina death records. Columbia, SC, USA: South Carolina Department of Archives and History.1 was an American football player for John Heisman's Clemson Tigers of Clemson University. He was captain of the SIAA champion 1902 and 1903 Clemson Tigers football teams coached by Heisman, selected All-Southern the same years.{{cite news|newspaper=Atlanta Constitution|date=November 29, 1903|title=Sadler Is Made Captain of All-Southern Team}}{{Cite news|url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=E57W4FHFMTQxMDkzNjg1OS45NzI2Mjg6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=16&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=16&p_docnum=3&p_docref=v2:11210D30DA68B248@EANX-112D32A1A96FD578@2416720-112D32A260BCB4F0@4-112D32A513322770@Johnny%20Desaulles%20Picks%20All-Southern%20Football%20Team|title = Johnny Desaulles Picks All-Southern Football Team|date = August 27, 1904|work = The State}} One publication reads "Vetter Sitton and Hope Sadler were the finest ends that Clemson ever had perhaps."{{cite news|newspaper=The Anderson Daily-Intelligencer|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93067669/1915-01-21/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_681x648_from_3411%2C3430_to_4381%2C4354/|title=Vetter Sitton Clemson Coach|date=January 21, 1915}} Sitton played on the left; Sadler on the right.{{cite book|url=http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/press/pubs/king/king_supplement.pdf|page=33|title=Fighting Like Cats and Dogs|author=Kyle King}}

Early years

Sadler was born on October 12, 1882, in York County, South Carolina, to Rufus Earle Sadler and Lillian Emily Crawford.

College football

In the "1903 SIAA championship game" against the Cumberland Bulldogs, which opened its season with an upset of Vanderbilt, the winning team was to be awarded the ball. The game ended in an 11–11 tie. Captain W. W. Suddarth of Cumberland wanted captain Sadler to get the ball, and Sadler insisted Suddarth should have it. Some ten minutes of bickering was resolved when the ball was given to patrolman Patrick J. Sweeney, for warning the media and fans to stay down in front and allow spectators to see the game.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxVwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |title=100 Things Clemson Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die|author=Lou Sahadi|date=2014|isbn=9781600789977}}

High school football

Sadler coached the University School for Boys in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1904.{{cite web|url=http://ghsfha.com/coaches.php?gName=Sadler,%20Hope|title=Sadler, Hope|access-date=January 28, 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958246//|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=November 20, 1904|access-date=March 10, 2015|page=5|title=Prep School Football Season Was Remarkably Successful|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} Later Oglethorpe coach Frank B. Anderson was an assistant.

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