Bob Blake (American football)
Blake, c. 1903 | |
| Profile | |
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| Position | End |
| Personal information | |
| Born | January 31, 1885 Cuero, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | May 8, 1962 (aged 77) Webster Groves, Missouri, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Listed weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Bowen School |
| College | Vanderbilt (1903, 1905–1907) |
| Awards and highlights | |
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Robert 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.
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."
Blake was later general counsel for the International Shoe Company, and married Dorothy Gaynor. Blake was also president of the Missouri Constitutional Convention in 1944.