By Walton | |
Alma Mater: | University of Mississippi |
Player Years1: | 1910-1912 |
Player Team1: | Ole Miss |
Player Positions: | Center
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Coach Years1: | 1911-1912 |
Coach Team1: | Ole Miss |
Awards: | All-Southern football player (1911) |
Byron S. "By" Walton was an American college football player, track star, and basketball player and coach at the University of Mississippi.
Walton attended Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]
He stood 6 feet tall and weighed 180 pounds.
Walton was a prominent end for the Ole Miss Rebels football team. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.[2]
He was selected All-Southern in 1911.[3] [4] [5] He once stripped Ray Morrison of Vanderbilt 10 yards short of the goal. Heisman describes Walton: "This chap weighs 180 stripped, is fast as a deer, willing as a shepherd dog, strong as an ox, and has the judgment of a football player. Against Mercer and Vanderbilt he was simply invulnerable; nothing could get around his end. And when it came to getting down the field and nailing his man under punts he proved himself a perfect demon."[5]
He played center and was captain and coach of the basketball team in 1911-1912.
Walton also attended the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1917 Walton was appointed by the Fosdick Commission to direct Army camp athletics in Syracuse, New York.[6]