His father served in the American Civil War, participating in the Battle of New Market as one of the VMI cadets.

One account reads "Ed Tutwiler is one of the greatest stars that football in the south ever produced.

[2] Fuzzy Woodruff gave Virginia the mythical southern championship regardless of conference affiliation for 1901.

[3] Tutwiler was found dead in pajamas in the bedroom of his Montgomery, Alabama, home on September 3, 1932, with a wound in his right temple.

A pistol lay near by; the family noted the apparent suicide had been preceded by a recent despondence because of ill health.