Frank Alexander Juhan was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

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 in 1966.

After graduating from Sewanee, he was ordained in the Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church (United States)

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 in 1911 and became the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Florida

Episcopal Diocese of Florida

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 in 1924. He was the youngest diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church at the time of his consecration and the senior active bishop in the church when he retired in 1956.

External links

• Biography of Bishop Frank Juhan