Roach Stewart

{{Short description|American football player and attorney (1881–1948)}}

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{{Infobox person

|occupation=attorney

|birth_date={{birth date|1881|1|28}}

|birth_place=Lancaster, South Carolina

|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1948|3|16|1881|1|28}}

|death_place=Columbia, South Carolina

| module = {{Infobox college football player|embed=yes

|school=North Carolina Tar Heels

|pastschools=North Carolina (1902–1904)

|currentposition=Center

|highlights=

• All-Southern (1904)

}}

}}Roach Sidney Stewart (January 28, 1881 – March 16, 1948) was a college football player and attorney. A native of Lancaster, South Carolina, he was the town's mayor from 1918 to 1922. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he co-founded the Order of the Golden Fleece, the oldest honorary society at the university.{{cite web | url=http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/uars/ead/40160.html | title=Order of the Golden Fleece of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1904-2019 }} As a member of the Tar Heels football team, Stewart was an All-Southern center.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1807&dat=19041214&id=MA0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3GkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1089,191080|work=The Cavalier Daily|accessdate=March 5, 2015|via=Google news|date=December 14, 1904|title=An All-Southern Football Team}} {{Open access}}