&sq=&lang=&file=File:Bobblake4.png) Blake, c. 1903 | |
| Vanderbilt Commodores | |
|---|---|
| Position | End |
| Class | 1908 |
| Major | Law |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | January 31, 1885 Cuero, Texas, U.S. |
| Died: | May 8, 1962 (aged 77) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | Vanderbilt (1903, 1905–1907) |
| High school | Bowen School |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Robert Edwin Blake (January 31, 1885 – May 8, 1962) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. Every football season in which he played, Blake was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship team and unanimously selected All-Southern. He was a lawyer and Rhodes Scholar.[1]
His three brothers, Dan, Vaughn, and Frank, also played on those winning teams. Dan, Bob, and Vaughn were captains of the 1906, 1907, and 1908 Vanderbilt football teams respectively. He thus signed letters "Bob Blake, pater familias."[2]
Blake was later general counsel for the International Shoe Company, and married Dorothy Gaynor.[3] Blake was also president of the Missouri Constitutional Convention in 1944.[4]
- ^ Henry Jay Case (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 320–331.
- ^ "Personal News". The American Oxonian: 114. 1915.
- ^ "Dorothy Gaynor Blake". Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
- ^ Missouri; Constitutional Convention (eds.). Reports of Committee No. 23 on phraseology, arrangement and engrossment and the Special Committee on the Schedule, on the arrangement and schedule of the Constitution of the state of Missouri, 1945 to the Hon. Robert E. Blake, President of the 1943-44 Constitutional Convention of Missouri. publisher not identified. OCLC 17911245.