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Gordon Forrest "Sherlock" Holmes (c. 1905 – August 8, 1963) was a college football player.

College football

Holmes was an All-Southern center for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of the University of Alabama, a member of the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl. He got a case of appendicitis en route to the second one while in El Paso, and was left there with the idea of Babe Pearce filling in for Holmes. Holmes let his doctors know he would catch the next train to Pasadena. The team's roster lists him as from Springville, Alabama.

He died on August 8, 1963.

References

1. "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.
2. "Alabama Will Feel Loss of its Star, Sherlock Holmes". The Independent Record. December 24, 1926. p. 9. Retrieved March 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Crimson Centennial Moment". The Tuscaloosa News. December 23, 1992.
4. "Through Long Drill; Biff Hoffman On Injured List". The Gazette Times. December 25, 1926.
5. "2010 Football Records Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2011.
6. "Ex-U of A Gridder, G. F. Holmes, Dies". Birmingham News. August 9, 1963. p. 30.

External links

• Gordon Holmes at Find a Grave

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