Gonna say something nice about a Nole

[Swamp Queen]

He was a Rhodes Scholar finalist, if I recall correctly. http://www.panhandleortho.com/staff-DoctorGilmore.php

Yes, he was. I had a huge crush on him back in the day....until the Auburn game.

 

[GatorJ]

Really smart guy. Good player too.

 

[diehardg8r]

Isn't Canyon in Nuke Eng? Just saying.

 

[Gator Fever]

I guess Rolle was on a practice squad for a year but never played in an NFL game.

 

[KronoGator]

More like fuel infected. Its an 05 Dodge with the big 6 cylinder.............brother is coming over. Spray the starter fuel in and it catches and then dies. Brother says maybe the brain or fuel pump another guys says maybe a fuse (fingers crossed).

It's never the fuse, 90 percent of fuse sales are people hoping it is the fuse.

 

[stephenPE]

Yes, he was. I had a huge crush on him back in the day....until the Auburn game.

That was funny,..........cruel but funny. I taught with a lady that was good friends with his mom.

 

[stephenPE]

Helped a friend change a fuel pump on his car once, pain in the a$$. I heard a truck is easier cause you can just unbolt the bed instead of having to drop the gas tank. Either way, not how I would want to spend my Saturday.

We towed it to ,my mechanic guy across from my other school. I hope he can knock it out by Wed, when work there.

 

[divits]

So who's our smartest former Gator player?

Interestingly enough another Rolle from Florida, Gary, is the team orthopedic surgeon for FAMU. Pretty smart dude.

 

[gatordad3]

Speaking of FSU, they got biatch slapped by the Musketeers

 

[Marianna-FL_Gator]

If a Nole and a Dawg were on fire, who would you piss on first to put out the fire?

Answer.....neither, pee in the grass and watch them both burn.

 

[stephenPE]

So who's our smartest former Gator player?

Bill Kynes is the senior pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Annandale, VA, where he has served since 1986. He and his wife Susan have four sons—Will, Matthew, Cameron, and Cason, and eight grandchildren.

Bill grew up in Tampa, FL, and graduated from H.B. Plant High School. He received the Thom McAn Trophy as the nation’s top high school scholar-athlete. He was an undergraduate at the University of Florida with a major in philosophy. There he also played quarterback on the football team and was later inducted into the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving an M.A. in theology. He received an M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in Deerfield, IL, before returning to England for a Ph.D. in New Testament from Cambridge University.

More about these Kynes.

No. 91 - JIMMY KYNES SR.


By Robbie Andreu/Pat Dooley
Published: Sunday, June 4, 2006 at 1:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, June 4, 2006 at 1:56 p.m.
Position: Center and linebacker.

Years he played: 1946-49.

Top 100 credentials: Kynes was one of the best players in what is known as The Golden Era at Florida — the four years under coach Ray Wolf that saw the Gators go 13-24-2 and endure a school-record 13-game losing streak.

He was Florida's first All-SEC lineman and the last Gator to play 60 minutes in a game. During the 1949 season, Kynes rarely came off the field, playing an average of 55 minutes a game.

How he shined: His finest performance came in 1949 in Florida's 28-7 victory over Georgia that broke a seven-game losing streak against the Bulldogs.

Kynes played all 60 minutes of the game.

Afterward, Wolf said of Kynes: "He was exactly at the right spot at exactly the right time on every play. He reached the peak and stayed there all afternoon."

Making his mark: Kynes left Florida with a law degree and, in 1964, became the youngest Attorney General of Florida.

Two sons — Jimmy Kynes Jr. (center) and Billy Kynes (quarterback) followed in their father's footsteps and lettered at UF in the 1970s.

Billy Kynes went on to become a Rhodes Scholar.

 

[Gatorraid81]

Bill Kynes is the senior pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Annandale, VA, where he has served since 1986. He and his wife Susan have four sons—Will, Matthew, Cameron, and Cason, and eight grandchildren.

Bill grew up in Tampa, FL, and graduated from H.B. Plant High School. He received the Thom McAn Trophy as the nation’s top high school scholar-athlete. He was an undergraduate at the University of Florida with a major in philosophy. There he also played quarterback on the football team and was later inducted into the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving an M.A. in theology. He received an M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in Deerfield, IL, before returning to England for a Ph.D. in New Testament from Cambridge University.

More about these Kynes.

Wow! We may have our winner with this one. What a resume. Love that he was a 2 way player, although it was probably not uncommon in that era. Guy has to be in his late 80's at least, hopefully he still gets around ok.

 

[Loogis]

He never did anything damaging to us in a game. I say, good for him.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

Bill Kynes as mentioned above was a UF quarterback in the 1970s and a Rhodes Scholar. However he was not the only Gator football player to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. William McCrae played guard on the famed 1928 Gator football team, graduated from the UF Law School, earned a Master's Degree at Oxford University and became a federal judge. The New York Times obituary does not mention that he was a UF football player.

ARCHIVES | 1973

• Chief Judge William McRae Jr. Of U. S. Court in Florida Is Dead
  SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMESJAN. 29, 1973
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 28 (UPI) — Chief Judge William A McRae Jr. of a United States District Court in Florida, who ordered Jacksonville's schools desegregated in 1970, collapsed last night, apparently of a heart attack, and died in St. Vincent's Hospital. He was 63 years old.
  
  Judge McRae was the first Federal judge appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and had figured in numeroils important decisions in his nearly 12 years on the Federal bench. He was named Chief Judge for the Middle District of Florida in 1971.
  
  In 1970, Judge McRae ruled that the Duval County (Jacksopville) School Board's united plan for desegregation was below minimum standards required by the United States Supreme Court. He drew up his own plan, which called for pairing and clustering the schools.
  
  Gov. Claude Kirk led the chorus of adverse reaction by threatening to have Judge McRae impeached. But the Judge brpshed off the numerous phone calls, letters and telegrams — many abusive or threatening—and said they had no effect on his legal deliberatidns.
  
  Many of Judge McRae's‐rulings had far ‐ reaching effects throughout Florida. In 1970, he ruled the state disorderly conduct statute unconstitutional.
  
  In other decisions, he threw out the main portions of the Florida obscenity law, stayed the execution of prisoners on death row at Raiford State Prison, drew up a plan for legislative reapportionment and freed hundreds of prisoners from the Jacksonville City Jail on the ground they had been convicted without benefit of counsel.
  
  Was Rhodes Scholar
  
  Judge McRae was born Sept. 25, 1909, in Marianna, Fla., graduated from the University of Florida in 1932, received his law degree there in 1933, and then was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University.
  
  He was admitted to the Florida bar in 1933 and practiced law in Jacksonville from 1936 to 1940 and in Bartow, Fla., from 1946 to 1961. He had been a professor of Iaw at the University of Florida in 1940–41 and was a former chairman of the university's board of trustees.
  
  In World War II he served in the Army Air Forces rising to colonel, and received the Legion of Merit. He was a former president of the Florida Bar Association and University of Florida Alumni Association.
  
  Judge McRae's wife, the former Aline Virginia Dearing, died in 1970. They had a son, William A. McRae 3d, and a daughter, Aline Virginia.

Gator footballer Bill McRae on the beach.