About Guy Lewis
Lived 1885 – 1957 (aged 71–72). Guy Lewis was an American american football player.
Howard Guy "Kemp" Lewis (February 21, 1883 – September 11, 1957), also known as Guy Lewis, was an American college football player and coach and engineer. He played end at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1906 and 1907 and was selected to the 1907 College Football All-Southern Team. Kemp served as the head football coach at Texas Christian University (TCU) for one season, in 1910, compiling a record of 2–6–1. He "pioneered in the forward pass and the change in the shape of the ball from round to oval."
Sewanee Lewis was a prominent 5 feet 11 inches, 165-pound end for the Sewanee Tigers football team of Sewanee: The University of the South. He was from Dallas, Texas.
1906
Rival Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin mentioned Lewis as one of the best ends in the South in 1906, but preferred moving running back Frank Shipp to end for his All-Southern team. That same season, Lewis caught a pass and ran 85 yards for a touchdown against Tulane. Sewanee lost the effective SIAA championship game to rival Vanderbilt on a double pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to Stein Stone. Honus Craig then ran in the winning touchdown. It was just the second year of the legal forward pass. The trick play was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports. Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South."
Later life and death Lewis moved to Houston around 1939 and worked with the United States Army Corps of Engineers there until retiring in 1953. He died at the age of 74, on September 11, 1957, at his home in Houston.
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American gridiron football player
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Guy Lewis was born in 1885 in Dallas.
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Guy Lewis died on 11 September 1957 in Houston.
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