Walker Leach

Walker Leach
Tennessee Volunteers
Position	Halfback/End
Class	Graduate
Personal information
Born:	July 22, 1888; Virginia, U.S.
Died:	January 2, 1944 (aged 55); Tennessee, U.S.
Career history
College	Tennessee (1905–1908)
Career highlights and awards
	All-Southern (1908);

John Walker Leach (July 22, 1888 – January 2, 1944) was a college football player.

University of Tennessee

He was a prominent, halfback, end and kicker for the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee. At Tennessee, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was once appointed alumni member of the Tennessee Athletic Council.^[1] He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.^[2]

Leach played at end in 1907.

Leach was captain of the school's 1908 team which was widely considered the best Tennessee football season up to that point.^[3] That year Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin noted "All things considered, Leach was perhaps the best football player of the year in Dixie."^[4] The team included College Football Hall of Fame guard Nathan Dougherty.

^ Sigma Alpha Epsilon (1910). "Tennessee". The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 30 – via Google Books.
^ "U-T Greats On All-Time Southeast Team". Kingsport Post. July 31, 1969 – via Google News.
^ Fields, Bud; Bertucci, Bob (1982). Big Orange: a pictorial history of University of Tennessee football. p. 34. ISBN 9780880110716 – via Google Books.
^ Spalding's Football Guide. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service. 1909. p. 75 – via Archive.org.

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