Flowers' son Ole Miss FB standout

[BillVol]

Bill Flowers, son of Richmond Flowers, great hurdler of yesteryear, is a good player for U. of Mississippi football team.

http://olemisssports.collegesports.com/ ... ill00.html

Just some info to file away! You never know...

[mike renfro]

Re: Flowers' son Ole Miss FB standout

Just out of curiosity, is grampa Flowers still alive? He was, in my memory, one of the few reasonable southern politicos of the bad old days.

[BillVol]

Re: Flowers' son Ole Miss FB standout

I believe he is. Yes he took a lot of grief back in those days. Atlanta had several good guys. Mayor Ivan Allen, who passed away recently, was one. Another good Southern good guy was Ralph E. McGill, "The Conscience of the South." Pulitzer prize winner, editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He is also alum of a noted Southern prep school which was attended by a T&FN staffer on here.

[tandfman]

He passed away on Thursday. He was 88.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printeditio ... california

[paulthefan]

.....whose political career ended in an extortion case...

[bijanc]

Flowers' kids

Richmond III was a nice player at Duke, a receiver who tried out for the CFL's Argos.

BCB

[tandfman]

.....whose political career ended in an extortion case...

Which he claimed resulted from his enforcement of integration laws.

In any event, de mortuis nil nisi bonum.

[dukehjsteve]

The AP news story about his passing mentioned that "son and grandson were star football players." Alas no mentioned of son's track stardom.