Jim Senter
{{Short description|American football player (1892–1968)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college football player
|name=Jim Senter
|image=jimsenter.jpg
|image_size=150
|caption=Senter, {{Circa|1915}}
|birth_date={{Birth date|1892|6|10}}
|birth_place=Clintwood, Virginia, U.S.
|death_date=March 1968
|death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
|school=Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
|class=Graduate
|weight_lb=172
|pastschools=Georgia Tech (1914–1916)
|currentposition=End
|highlights=
- National champion (1916)
- SIAA championship (1916)
- All-Southern (1914, 1915)
- Tech All-Era Team (John Heisman Era)
}}
James Corbett Senter (June 10, 1892 – March 1968) was an American college football player.
Georgia Tech
=Football=
Senter was a prominent end for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology.{{cite web|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/13188/finished%201916.pdf.txt?sequence=4|title=Football Team}} he was selected for Tech's All-Era team of the Heisman era.{{cite web|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/HONORS.pdf|title=Georgia Tech Honors|publisher=Georgia Tech Athletic Association|year=2007|access-date=September 30, 2007|archive-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008073817/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/HONORS.pdf|url-status=dead}} He was selected All-Southern in 1914 and 1915.e. g. {{cite news|newspaper = Atlanta Constitution|title = Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters|author = Dick Jemison|date = November 30, 1915}}
Senter was a starter for the 1916 Georgia Tech team which, as one writer wrote, "seemed to personify Heisman".{{Cite book|title = Heisman: The Man Behind the Trophy|last = Heisman|first = John M.|date = 2 October 2012|isbn = 9781451682915|pages = 144| publisher=Simon and Schuster |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yjYn6FVEqCQC&pg=PA144}} Senter played and scored in the 222–0 defeat of Cumberland University.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grCfAAAAMAAJ&q=senter|title=Football: a college history|author=Tom Perrin|page=90|year=1987|publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780899502946}}{{cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/ga/GeorgiaTech/Flashback/techcumberland.html|title=Tech-222, Cumberland-0}}
=Baseball=
Senter also pitched on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team.
Cornell
In 1918, Senter completed his ground school training in the school of aeronautics at Cornell University.{{cite news|work=Technique|title=Jim Senter Honor Man At Cornell|page=4|date=February 12, 1918}}
References
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{{1916 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football navbox}}
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Category:American football ends
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball players
Category:Players of American football from Virginia
Category:People from Clintwood, Virginia
Category:Baseball players from Virginia
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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