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Walker Carpenter
American football player (1893–1956)
Walker Glenn "Bill" "Big Six" Carpenter (June 3, 1893 – September 24, 1956) was an American football tackle for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He and teammate Everett Strupper were the first players from the Deep South selected to an All-America team, in 1917.[1] Carpenter was inducted into the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1965.[2] He is also a member of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Helms Football Hall of Fame.