Ed Tutwiler

Ed Tutwiler

Tutwiler cropped from 1901 Virginia team picture
Biographical details
Born	(1880-09-13)September 13, 1880 Balcony Falls, Virginia, U.S.
Died	September 3, 1932(1932-09-03) (aged 51) Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
Playing career
1897–1898	Alabama
1900–1901	Virginia
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1902	Central University
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
All-Southern (1901)

Edward Magruder "Tut" Tutwiler Jr. (September 13, 1880 – September 3, 1932) was a college football player and coach. He played quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama and the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia.

Edward M. Tutwiler, Jr was born on September 13, 1880, in Balcony Falls, Virginia, to Maj. Edward Magruder Tutwiler, a wealthy Birmingham philanthropist, and Mary Fendley Jeffray. His father served in the American Civil War, participating in the Battle of New Market as one of the VMI cadets.

Tutwiler was from Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of his enrolling at the University of Alabama. He transferred from Alabama to Virginia. One account reads "Ed Tutwiler is one of the greatest stars that football in the south ever produced. He was a graduate of the University in the class of '98, and afterwards went to the University of Virginia. He was considered the pluckiest quarterback in the south, and was noted for head work and generalship."^[1]

Tutwiler was selected All-Southern in 1901.^[2] Fuzzy Woodruff gave Virginia the mythical southern championship regardless of conference affiliation for 1901.^[3]

Tutwiler was found dead in pajamas in the bedroom of his Montgomery, Alabama, home on September 3, 1932, with a wound in his right temple. A pistol lay near by; the family noted the apparent suicide had been preceded by a recent despondence because of ill health.^[4]

• Ed Tutwiler at Find a Grave