Walter Council

{{Short description|American football player and physician (1882–1943)}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Walter Council

|birth_date={{birth date|1882|4|25}}

|birth_place=Council, North Carolina

|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1943|11|13|1882|4|25}}

|death_place=Juneau, Alaska

|occupation=physician

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

|school=Virginia Cavaliers

|major=Medicine

|weight_lb=195

|pastschools=North Carolina (1900–1901)
Virginia (1902–1904)

|currentposition=Tackle/Center

|class=Graduate

|highlights=

All-Southern (1902, 1903, 1904)

}}

Walter Wooten "Bull" Council (April 25, 1882 – November 13, 1943) was a college football player and physician.

Early years

Walter Council was born on April 25, 1882, in Council, North Carolina, which was named for his father, John Pickett Council.{{cite news|work=Seattle Daily Times|date=November 16, 1943|page=23|title=Dr. Council of Alaska Health Agency Dead}} His mother was Johnanna Wooten Council. (Her first name, seen in various spellings, is listed as spelled in family records; it derives in part as a tribute to her father, John Wooten, who was thrown from a horse and killed before Johnanna's birth.)

=University of North Carolina=

Council was a prominent center for the North Carolina Tar Heels football teams of the University of North Carolina from 1900 to 1901.{{cite news|work=The Raleigh Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2200679/the_raleigh_times/|title=Reception to the Team|page=4|date=November 8, 1900|accessdate=April 12, 2015|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

=University of Virginia=

==1902==

John de Saulles brought him to the Virginia Cavaliers football team of 1902,{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1945630//|work=Richmond Dispatch|date=October 5, 1902|accessdate=March 8, 2015|page=6|via=Newspapers.com|title=The Varsity Footballists}} {{Open access}} where he played tackle, one of the best in the school's history.{{cite book|author=Kemp Plummer Battle|author-link=Kemp Plummer Battle|page=748|title=History of the University of North Carolina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCwzG7qDUx4C&pg=PA748|year=1912}} Council was selected All-Southern in 1902.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1945324//|work=The Times|date=December 27, 1902|page=6|title=All Southern Team|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 8, 2015}} {{Open access}} He played opposite Branch Johnson on the line.

Physician

He came to Alaska as a youth of 24 in 1905, less than a year after he was graduated with honors from the University of Virginia's medical school, and with a degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina.{{cite journal|journal=Southern Medicine and Surgery|volume=105|year=1943|url=https://archive.org/stream/southernmed1051943char#page/548/|via=archive.org|title=Doctor Walter Wooten Council|accessdate=March 8, 2015|page=548}} {{Open access}} At the time of his death he was the Dean of Alaska surgeons, Commissioner of Health for the Territory.