His younger brother Vernon Sharp was also a Vanderbilt football player, selected All-Southern in 1927.

He was instrumental in founding the Department of Fine Arts, of which he was Chairman from 1955 to 1960] when I came back to Vanderbilt in the thirties.

But the man had this need, hidden under that murderous exterior, to write poems.Sharp was a prominent member of Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores from 1920 to 1923 as a center on teams which won three straight conference titles.

[6] During that game, "Thousands of cheering Vanderbilt fans inspired the surge of center Alf Sharp, guard Gus Morrow, tackle Tex Bradford, and end Lynn Bomar, who stopped Michigan cold in four attempts.

[9] He was cited along with Lynn Bomar and Bob Rives for holding the Tennessee Volunteers to only 7 in a 51 to 7 romp.