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George Everett "Stroop" Strupper, Jr. (July 26, 1896 – February 4, 1950) was an All-American football player. He played halfback for Georgia Tech from 1915 to 1917. Strupper overcame deafness resulting from a childhood illness and was selected as an All-American in 1917. Strupper and teammate Walker Carpenter were the first players from the Deep South selected for an All-America team. During Strupper's three years playing for Georgia Tech, the team compiled a record of 24-0-2 and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 1,135 to 61. In Georgia Tech's record-setting 220-0 win over Cumberland College in 1916, Strupper scored eight touchdowns. He was called by sportswriter Morgan Blake "probably the greatest running half-back the South has known." Strupper was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1974. ==Football career== Strupper was a native of Columbus, Georgia and attended Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia before enrolling at Georgia Tech. He is a member of the school's sports hall of fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=February 19, 2015 )〕 Strupper played halfback for Georgia Tech football teams under head coach John Heisman from 1915 to 1917. Strupper was deaf, and because of his deafness, he called the signals instead of the team’s quarterback.〔 Strupper was a small man, with his height being stated in varying accounts to be between five-feet seven inches and five-feet, ten inches.〔 His coach John Heisman later wrote that Strupper was "but 5 feet 7 inches in height, weighed only 148 pounds stripped."〔 He was sometimes known as "little Everett Strupper."〔 Georgia Tech never lost a game in which Strupper played, compiling three consecutive undefeated seasons from 1915 to 1917. During Strupper's three years playing for Georgia Tech, the team compiled a record of 24-0-2.〔 Only two teams managed a tie – the University of Georgia in 1915 and Washington & Lee in 1916. In those 26 games, Georgia Tech outscored its opponents by a combined score of 1,135 to 61.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=College Football Hall of Fame )〕 Georgia Tech coach John Heisman later described Strupper as follows: ”Everett Strupper was a small package of condensed lightning when you turned him loose in an open field with a ball you wanted delivered somewhere in the neighborhood of the enemy's goal line. He was small, but he was put together like a high-powered motor. His arms and legs did just what his mind told them to do, and, believe me, his mind worked faster than Ty Cobb's when he's running the bases. Dodging and twisting, stiff-arming and hipping, he'd run the gauntlet of men big enough, you'd think, to pick him up and spank him, and most of the time, too, he'd get away from them, try as hard as they would.” Heisman recalled that, when Strupper first arrived from Riverside Military Academy, Heisman could not imagine Strupper playing on the football team: “Too light for the line, I didn't see how he could play in the backfield, because he wouldn't be able to get the signals. He could have played quarterback fine, but his enunciation wasn't clear enough for him to call the plays.”〔 Heisman recalled how Strupper overcame the obstacle posed by his deafness: “He couldn't hear anything but a regular shout. But he could read your lips like a flash. No lad that ever stepped on a football field had keener eyes than Everett had. The enemy found this out the minute he began looking for openings through which to run the ball.”〔 Strupper was selected as an All-Southern player in both 1915 and 1916.〔 He was nominated though not selected for an ''Associated Press'' All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everett Strupper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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