John Loyd
{{Short description|American football player and physician (1875–1943)}}
{{About||the basketball player|Johnathan Loyd|other people with a similar name|John Lloyd (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
|name=John Loyd
|image=johnloyd.png
|image_size=200px
|caption=Loyd c. 1900
|birth_date={{Birth date|1875|5|5}}
|birth_place=Bedford County, Virginia
|death_date={{Death date and age|1943|3|4|mf=y|1875|5|5}}
|death_place=Rockbridge County, Virginia
|currentposition=Tackle
|pastschools=Richmond (1892–1895)
Virginia (1898–1900)
|height_ft=5
|height_in=11
|weight_lb=180
|class=Graduate
|school=Virginia Cavaliers
|highlights=
- Southern championship (1900)
- All-Southern (1898, 1899, 1900)
}}
John Edward Loyd (May 5, 1875 – March 4, 1943) was an American college football player and physician.
College football
Loyd played for Richmond College from 1892 to 1895{{cite web|url=http://football.urlibraries.org/items/show/35|title=Photograph of the Richmond College Football Team 1893}} and for the Virginia Cavaliers from 1898 to 1900.{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071779/1900-11-18/ed-1/seq-10/|title=Virginia vs. Carolina...|date=November 18, 1900|page=10|work=Virginian-Pilot}} He was captain of the team in 1900,{{cite news|url=http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RD19021007.1.9#|title=Novel Football Game At The University Tomorrow|date=October 7, 1902|work=Richmond Dispatch}} a year in which Virginia had a claim to a Southern championship{{cite web|url=http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/champs/Southern.txt|title=Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation}} and defeated Sewanee to give the school its first loss since 1897.{{cite news|url=http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T19001130.1.2&srpos=3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22buck+harris%22+------#|title=Virginia Wins Decisive Victory|work=The Times|date=November 30, 1900}} Loyd was thrice selected to the All-Southern team as a tackle.e.g. {{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLg2AQAAIAAJ&q=sewanee+%22ormond+simpkins%22&pg=PA615|title=All-Southern Eleven for 1900|journal=Outing|volume=37|page=616|publisher=Outing Publishing Company|date=1901}}
Physician
He was once resident physician at the Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital at Clifton Forge.{{cite journal|journal=The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia|volume=2|page=46|title=The Alumni Bulletin|year=1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CZPAAAAYAAJ&q=john+e+loyd+virginia&pg=RA1-PA46}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwYoAAAAYAAJ|title=Official Industrial Guide and Shippers' Directory: For the Use of the Company's Patrons and Others Seeking Facts Pertaining to Its Territorial Resources : Mining, Agricultural, Manufacturing, Commercial, Financial and Educational Advantages |date=1906|publisher=Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company General Freight Department|language=en}}
References
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Category:Physicians from Virginia
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:American football tackles
Category:People from Bedford County, Virginia
Category:Players of American football from Virginia
Category:Virginia Cavaliers football players
Category:Richmond Spiders football players