Baby Roane Explained

Career Position:Forward/guard
Birth Date:26 September 1901
Birth Place:Atlanta, Georgia
Death Place:Chattanooga, Tennessee
College:
Highlights:
  • All-Southern (1922, 1923)

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]

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 38, No. 04 1959. Issuu. 3 October 2013 .
  2. Web site: Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 49, No. 06 1971. Issuu. 8 October 2013 .
  3. News: Roane Closes His Court Career In Tournament. February 29, 1924. Atlanta Georgian.
  4. Web site: Georgia Tech at Kentucky (February 23, 1924). www.bigbluehistory.net.
  5. https://ramblinwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gtstats1971-72.pdf 1971–1972 Georgia Tech Basketball Results
  6. Web site: 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 Year-by-Year Standings
  8. News: March 5, 1923. All-Southern Basketball Team Picked by Writers. 8. Asheville Citizen-Times. Newspapers.com. November 12, 2017.
  9. https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/33554
  10. News: 1971 Georgia Tech Hall of Fame_Bobby Moorhead. The Miami News. May 12, 1971. 26. newspapers.com.
  11. http://dlgmedia1-www.galib.uga.edu/data/newspapers-pdf/mer/mer1923/mer1923-0049.pdf Newspaper archive

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