Bob Winston

Bob Winston

North Carolina Tar Heels
Position	End
Class	Graduate
Career history
College	North Carolina (1911–1914)
Personal information
Date of birth	December 17, 1891
Place of birth	Oxford, North Carolina
Date of death	August 10, 1970 (aged 78)
Place of death	Raleigh, North Carolina
Career highlights and awards
All-Southern (1914)

Robert Watson "Bob" Winston, Jr. (December 17, 1891 – August 10, 1970) was a college football player and politician from North Carolina.

College football

Winston was an All-Southern college football end for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina, captain of its 1911 team.^[1] He was selected for the 1914 College Football All-Southern Team by Dick Jemison.^[2] Kemp Plummer Battle recalls he was a good player but shifted around the line too much for his own good.^[3] He was once in charge of athletics at Bingham Military School in Asheville.^[4]

Politics

Winston represented Wake County in the General Assembly of 1917. In 1949 he was named chairman of the State Board of Alcohol Control.^[5]

References

1. "Year-by-Year". University of North Carolina ... football blue book for press and radio. 1956.
2. Spalding's Official Football Guide. NCAA. 1915.
3. Kemp Plummer Battle (1912). History of the University of North Carolina. p. 751.
4. "1912". University of North Carolina Alumni Review. 1 (1): 29. October 1912.
5. "Winston Is Named Chairman of ABC". Star-News. May 4, 1949.