Rammy Ramsdell

Ashley Wakefield "Rammy" Ramsdell (November 6, 1894 – April 14, 1977) was a college football, baseball, and basketball player and track athlete for the Florida Gators of the University of Florida. Ramsdell's athletic career was prematurely ended when he broke his leg playing baseball at the end of his junior year. He was the first scholarship athlete at the University of Florida.

Early life Ashley Wakefield Ramsdell was born on November 6, 1894, in Ocala, Florida. He attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa, class of 1913. Future Gator teammate Rex Farrior also attended. As an end on the football team, Ramsdell dropped a pass to tie the state championship game. The basketball team however did win a state title.

University of Florida Ramsdell attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played several sports for the Florida Gators. Ramsdell was the starting quarterback for two seasons on the football team, a centerfielder on the baseball team, and a member of Florida's first basketball squad. Ramsdell also scored four touchdowns in the game with Mercer that year.

While running the bases during a baseball game against Auburn in 1915, Ramsdell accidentally stepped on the foot of first baseman George Steed and got his spikes caught in Steed's laces, which resulted in Ramsdell breaking his left leg with "a loud cracking noise".

Later life Ramsdell married Geneva E. Mosley on June 2, 1917. Their daughter Jean was a Tampa philanthropist. Ramsdell's First World War registration says he is a schoolteacher in Tampa. He later settled in Plant City and owned a trucking company. After a stroke in 1950, he sold the business.