Earle Taylor
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| Florida Gators | |
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| Position | Halfback/Kicker |
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| College | Florida (1908–1912) |
| Bowl games | Bacardi Bowl (1912) |
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| Date of birth | February 2, 1891 |
| Place of birth | Ashland, Kansas |
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| Place of death | Gainesville, Florida |
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Earle Abbott "Dummy" Taylor (February 2, 1891 – September 10, 1955)[1] was a college football player and oil company distributor.[2]
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Early years
Taylor was born in Ashland, Kansas, in 1891.[3] By age nine, he had moved with his family to Gainesville, Florida. His father, Herbert Taylor, was employed as a bank cashier.[4]
University of Florida
Taylor played at the right halfback position for the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida from 1908 to 1912;[5][6] the only UF player to earn five football letters.[7][8] Some describe him as the school's first star athlete.[9] Taylor was described by contemporaneous newspaper accounts as a legendary broken field runner and a master of the hidden ball trick, who could drop-kick field goals "at seemingly impossible angles and distance."[5] He is a member of the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame.[10]
He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.[11] Taylor was picked as a halfback for an All-Time Florida Gators football team in 1927.[12]
1908
In his first season of 1908, Taylor's extra point decided the win over Stetson.
1909
Taylor kicked three field goals to beat the Jacksonville Olympics in 1909.[13]
1910
He was captain of the 1910 team which suffered its only loss to Mercer.
1911
Taylor featured on the undefeated 1911 team captained by Neal Storter. The team tied the South Carolina Gamecocks, defeated The Citadel Bulldogs, Clemson[14] and the College of Charleston, declared themselves to be the "champions of South Carolina,"[15] and finished their season 5–0–1—still the only undefeated football season in the Gators' history. Taylor scored in the tie with South Carolina.[16] Of the 84 points scored by Florida in 1911, Taylor scored 49: 25 points on the ground and 24 on field goals and points-after. He also threw two touchdown passes.[5] His 8 field goals were a then school record,[9] standing until 1974.[17]
1912
He was also on the 1912 team which played in the Bacardi Bowl. Earlier in the season, the Gators got their first ever win over South Carolina. Taylor made a field goal.[18]
Later years
Taylor continued to reside in Gainesville, Florida. As of June 1917, he was employed as a master mechanic for the Florida Industrial Corporation in Gainesville.[3] In 1920, he was living in Gainesville and employed as an engineer.[19] In 1930, he was living in Gainesville with his wife, Leonilla and their six-year-old son, Earl, Jr., and he was employed as a wholesale dealer in gas and oil.[20] In 1940, he remained Gainesville with his wife and son and was employed as a consignee for the Texas Oil Company.[21] He died in Gainesville in 1955 after suffering a heart attack at age 64.[2][22]
References
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- ↑ United States World War 1 Registration Cards
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Draft Registration Card for Earle Abbott Taylor, born February 2, 1891, Ashland, Kansas. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Registration State: Florida; Registration County: Alachua; Roll: 1556849
- ↑ Census entry for Herbert Taylor and family. Son Earle A. Taylor, born Feb. 1891 in Kansas. Son Herbert S. Taylor, born 1887 in Kansas. Wife Mary born in Virginia. Census Place: Gainsville, Alachua, Florida; Roll: 165; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 1240165. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
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- ↑ Census entry for E. A. Taylor, age 29, born in Kansas. Census Place: Gainesville, Alachua, Florida; Roll: T625_214; Page: 42A; Enumeration District: 10; Image: 312. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
- ↑ Census entry for Earle A. Taylor, age 39, born in Kansas. Census Place: Gainesville, Alachua, Florida; Roll: 306; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0014; Image: 314.0; FHL microfilm: 2340041. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
- ↑ Census entry for Earle Taylor, age 49, born in Kansas. Census Place: Gainesville, Alachua, Florida; Roll: T627_573; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 1-7. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
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