Nathan Dougherty - University of Tennessee Athletics

Born March 23, 1886, in Hales Mill, Virginia was Nathan Dougherty the great University of Tennessee guard from 1906 till 1909's season. Nathan was a man of considerable size in that era as he stood 6'-2" tall and weighed in at 185 pounds according to his bio posted on the FootballFoundation.org site therefore his peers referred to him as "Big'n." A great athlete, captaining the Tennessee football, basketball   track teams all at the same time. Dougherty was a pretty smart players too as he graduated Tennessee with honors and even earned a couple of additional degrees when he later educated others at both Cornell and George Washington Universities. The College Football Hall of Fame gathered the data and stats of Nathan Dougherty to set in a place of honor in their museum in 1967.

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