William Choice
{{Short description|American football player (1880–1942)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
|name=William Choice
|image=William Choice (1899).jpg
|image_size=150px
|caption=Choice at VPI in 1899.
|birth_place=Spartanburg, South Carolina
|weight_lb=171
|birth_date={{birth date|1880|6|9}}
|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1942|2|6|1880|6|9}}
|death_place=Richland County, South Carolina
|school=Virginia Cavaliers
|pastschools=
|currentposition=Guard
|highlights=
- Southern championship (1900)
- All-Southern (1899, 1900)
}}
William Choice Jr. (9 June 1880 – 6 February 1942) was a college football player. He served in the Spanish–American War.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofspartan00land | page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofspartan00land/page/468 468] |title = History of Spartanburg County: Embracing an Account of Many Important Events, and Biographical Sketches of Statesmen, Divines and Other Public Men| publisher=Franklin Prtg. and Publishing Company, Geo. W. Harrison, Gen. Mgr. |last1 = Landrum|first1 = John Belton O'Neall|year = 1900}}
College football
=VPI=
In 1899 he was a prominent guard for Virginia Polytechnic Institute,{{cite journal|url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VTMAG/v14n3/page16-19.html|title=Virginia Tech Football - All Century Team|journal=Virginia Tech Magazine|volume=14|number=3|year=1992}} and selected for the All-Southern all-star team.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZptUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA533|title=All-Southern Football Team|journal=Outing|volume=35|page=533|publisher=Outing Publishing Company|date=1900|accessdate=March 5, 2015|via=Google books}} {{Open access}}
=University of Virginia=
In 1900 he played for Southern champions, Virginia Cavaliers,{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/all-time-letterwinners.html|title=All-time Letterwinners|access-date=2015-04-11|archive-date=2014-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221175635/http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/all-time-letterwinners.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071779/1900-11-18/ed-1/seq-10/|date=November 18, 1900|work=Virginian-Pilot|title=Virginia vs. Carolina . . .}} and was again selected for All-Southern.{{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|via=Google books|accessdate=March 10, 2015}} {{Open access}}
References
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External links
- {{findagrave|53031305}}
{{1899 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
{{1900 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}
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Category:Virginia Cavaliers football players
Category:Virginia Tech Hokies football players
Category:American football guards
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:19th-century players of American football
Category:Players of American football from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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