Gordon Forrest "Sherlock" Holmes (c. 1905 – August 8, 1963) was a college football player.
Holmes was an All-Southern center for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of the University of Alabama,[1] a member of the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl.
He got a case of appendicitis en route to the second one while in El Paso,[2] and was left there with the idea of Babe Pearce filling in for Holmes.
[3][4] The team's roster lists him as from Springville, Alabama.
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