Baby Roane

Robert Watson "Babe" "Baby" Roane (September 26, 1901 – October 12, 1959) was a college basketball player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, known as Tech's first basketball star. Later in life he was superintendent of Davenport Hosiery Mills in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[1]

Baby Roane
Personal information
Born(1901-09-26)September 26, 1901
Atlanta, Georgia
DiedOctober 12, 1959(1959-10-12) (aged 58)
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Career information
College
PositionForward/guard
Career highlights and awards
  • All-Southern (1922, 1923)

Georgia Tech

Tech's first basketball star[2] entered school in 1920, and played with the freshmen in 1921, until coach Bill Alexander inserted him to boost the strength of his varsity team.[3] He played forward and guard.[4][5] He was All-Southern in 1922 and 1923.[6][7][8] Roane was captain of the 1923-24 team.[9] He was inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1971.[10]

One account reads "Roane is small in stature, but his ability to dribble, pass, and handle the ball eliminates the handicap. He is a dead shot if given half a chance, and is one of the greatest floormen in the south."[11]

References
  1. "Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 38, No. 04 1959". Issuu.
  2. "Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 49, No. 06 1971". Issuu.
  3. "Roane Closes His Court Career In Tournament". Atlanta Georgian. February 29, 1924.
  4. "Georgia Tech at Kentucky (February 23, 1924)". www.bigbluehistory.net.
  5. https://ramblinwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gtstats1971-72.pdf
  6. "The Mercer Cluster. (Macon, Ga.) 1920-current, March 10, 1922, Image 1 « Georgia Historic Newspapers". gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu.
  7. https://static.soconsports.com/custompages/socon/files/0809mbkguide/standingsandresults.pdf
  8. "All-Southern Basketball Team Picked by Writers". Asheville Citizen-Times. March 5, 1923. p. 8. Retrieved November 12, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  9. https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/33554
  10. "1971 Georgia Tech Hall of Fame_Bobby Moorhead". The Miami News. May 12, 1971. p. 26 – via newspapers.com.
  11. http://dlgmedia1-www.galib.uga.edu/data/newspapers-pdf/mer/mer1923/mer1923-0049.pdf
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