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Excerpt from Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, Vol. 31: February 1934 I have gone to the South for a Sig Ep center, burly Talmadge Maples, leader of the University of Ten nessee gridders. Maples, all-southern pivot, received deserved recognition throughout the nation's Sports circles for his magnificent exhibition of center play on a team that for some strange reason has not received the attention it has certainly merited. It was something in the nature of a mental Shake up for me when I learned that the Vols had lost only a half dozen games during eight years of consistent nine and ten game schedules which included Vanderbilt, Duke, Alabama, Louisiana State, Kentucky, F lor ida and others in the deadly class of heavy weights. Maples, although handicapped by injuries for a part of the season played his usual flashing, slashing pivotal game when he was in there. Maples is the instinctive type of center. From authenticated reports he appears to be a replica of Jack Heaphy, decade-ago Boston College center, who guessed plays before the opponents' Signals were called. Offensively Maples was ag gressive and a tower of Strength on the defense. He was choice of the United Press for its all-southern eleven and rated third string center on the Central Press All team compiled by men who should know captains of college teams all over the coun try. In this compilation he Was runner up to Michigan's great Bernard and Ford ham's Del Isola. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections succes