Flowers was also selected as a halfback on an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869–1919 era.

[6] In 1917 Flowers participated in one of the great upsets in Southern football history as the Wildcats bested the Auburn Tigers 21–7.

[8] Davidson scored the most on the 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado, for many years considered the greatest football team the South ever produced,[11] in a 32–10 loss.

[12] One description of Flowers's play reads: "Against the previously impenetrable Tech defense of 1917 Buck was the Houdini-like escape artist – the will-o'-the-wisp of twisting, tantalizing runs, one of which set the stage for the Davidson touchdown and another of which brought them within range for a Flowers drop-kick of three points.

[16] In 1918, Flowers enrolled at Georgia Tech where he played for the 1918, 1919, and 1920 teams coached by John Heisman and Bill Alexander.

Flowers was captain of the 1920 team that compiled an 8–1 record, suffered its only loss to Glenn "Pop" Warner's Pittsburgh, outscored opponents 280 to 16, and tied for first place with Georgia and Tulane in the SIAA.

[20] Vanderbilt's ends were easily skirted by the Tech backs Flowers, Red Barron, and Ferst.

[23] Ferst came in for Flowers, when Georgia Tech started to use substitutes in the middle of the second quarter.

As he writhed in death agony when the battle was over, he made one request, "Please omit Flowers".Flowers appeared in his final college football game on November 25, 1920, as Georgia Tech defeated Auburn at Grant Field in Atlanta by a score of 34 to 0.

As he writhed in death agony when the battle was over, he made one request, 'Please omit Flowers'".

[8] After the 1920 season, Flowers was selected as a third-team All-American by the United Press and the International News Service.

[28] As of 1958, he was employed as the southeastern region mortgage supervisor for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

[6] At the induction ceremony at Rutgers University, Flowers was joined by approximately a dozen teammates from the 1920 Georgia Tech team.

Flowers gave credit to his teammates and called his induction into the Hall of Fame his "greatest honor".