Eben Wortham

Eben Wortham
Sewanee Tigers
Position	Fullback
Class	Graduate
Personal information
Born:	July 22, 1897; Greenville, Mississippi
Died:	August 1, 1982 (aged 85); Nashville, Tennessee
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight	156 lb (71 kg)
Career history
College	Sewanee (1916-1918)
Career highlights and awards
	All-Southern (1917);

Eben Alexander "Pep" Wortham (July 22, 1897 – August 1, 1982) was a college football player and educator.

Sewanee

In 1916, Dick Jemison picked Bill Folger out of North Carolina as a halfback for his All-Southern team. Jemison said had he constrained his selections to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Wortham would have taken his spot.

In 1917, the year of Georgia Tech's great backfield, he made the All-Southern teams of Dick Jemison, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution, Fred Digby, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item, and Zipp Newman, assistant sporting editor for the Birmingham News.^[1]^[2] He drop-kicked a 40-yard field goal in the game against LSU to win 3 to 0. Also he drop-kicked a 27-yard field goal in a 3 to 3 tie at Alabama.

After football, he signed on to the university's faculty to teach mathematics, history, tactics, and boxing.^[3]

^ Spalding Football Guide. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service. 1918.
^ "National and Southern Honors". Sewanee Football Media Guide: 31. 2011.
^ "Academy Notes". Sewanee Purple. March 7, 1919.

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