Silas Williams

{{Short description|American football player, coach, and lawyer (1888–1944)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|6|9}}

| birth_place = Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|8|1888|6|9}}

| death_place = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1905–1909

| player_team1 = Sewanee

| player_positions = End

| coach_years1 = 1914–1915

| coach_team1 = Sewanee (assistant)

| coach_years2 = 1919–1921

| coach_team2 = Chattanooga

| overall_record = 10–15–2

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| awards = 2× All-Southern (1908–1909)
Second-team All-Time Sewanee football team

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Silas McBee "Sike" Williams (June 9, 1888 – December 8, 1944) was an American college football player and coach as well as a lawyer.{{Cite journal|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AQ1FVPh3b9QC&pg=PA31|title = Organization of the F A C O T S|date = 1919|journal = F.A.C.O.T.S.: The Story of the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky|page = 31}}

Sewanee

Williams was a prominent end for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, selected second-team for its All-Time football team,{{cite journal|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Sewanee-Alumni-News-February-1949-Volume-15/969199/25|title=Sewanee's All-Time Football Team|journal=Sewanee Alumni News|date=February 1949}} He stood 5'9" and weighed 150 pounds.

=1909=

Williams was selected All-Southern{{cite news|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=U52O4CMBMTQxMzUxNDczMS45ODU2NDI6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=13&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=13&p_docnum=18&p_docref=v2:11260DC9BB798E30@EANX-1137058683221408@2418640-11370586F0541200@2-1137058950574DC8@All-Southern%20Selection|title=All-Southern Selection|newspaper=Charlotte Observer|date=November 29, 1909}}{{cite journal|page=31|url=http://issuu.com/sewaneeathletics/docs/sewaneefootball2011|title=National and Southern Honors|journal=Sewanee Football Media Guide|year=2011}} and captain of the SIAA champion 1909 team.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958269//|work=News and Observer|title=Sewanee Will Be In It|date=September 28, 1909|access-date=March 10, 2015|page=3|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

Harvard

He also attended Harvard Law School,{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLkmm-s-jicC&pg=PA525|title=Organization sans prototype|journal=ABA Journal|page=525|date=May 1961|volume=47|publisher=American Bar Association}} receiving his LL. B. in 1913.{{cite book|title=General Catalogue of Sigma Alpha Epsilon|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/General-Catalogue-of-Sigma-Alpha-Epsilon/132531/590|page=578}}

=Law school football=

There in a game of all-stars from Michigan, Sewanee, and Vanderbilt against Harvard, including Germany Schulz at center and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin at left guard, Williams played on Harvard's team against his former quarterback Chigger Browne.{{Cite journal|url = https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew18univ#page/n53/mode/2up|title = Browne is All-Time Tiger Great|date = 1952|journal = Sewanee Alumni News|page = 15}}{{cite web|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv24/CFHSNv24n1f.pdf|title=1910 Harvard Law All-Stars|page=13|author=Tom Benjey}} That game ended in a scoreless tie. A second game was played between Harvard Law School and a different "All-Southern" team. Williams scored the only points in the 5 to 0 victory when he ran in a touchdown off a Stephen Galatti pass.{{Cite web|url = http://tombenjey.com/2010/05/04/southern-all-stars/|title = Southern All Stars| date=4 May 2010 }}

Chattanooga

Williams served as the head football coach at the University of Chattanooga—now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga—from 1919 to 1921, compiling a record of 10–15–2.

Death

Williams died on December 8, 1944, at the Robert Fulton Hotel in Atlanta, after suffering a heart attack.{{cite news |author= |title=Silas Williams Dies Suddenly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75962309/chattanooga-daily-times/ |newspaper=Chattanooga Daily Times |location=Chattanooga, Tennessee |date=December 9, 1944 |page=1 |access-date=April 17, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=Silas Williams Dies Suddenly (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75962445/chattanooga-daily-times/ |newspaper=Chattanooga Daily Times |location=Chattanooga, Tennessee |date=December 9, 1944 |page=7 |access-date=April 17, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}