Talk:Rammy Ramsdell

Pet goat?
The book Yesterday's Polk County notes: "A pet goat belonging to Wakefield Ramsdell wandered into it [city hall, presumably] one day and is said to have devoured some of the village's early records." Cake (talk) 16:29, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * See also here. Cake  (talk) 16:39, 5 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Ha, interesting tidbit, but who knows if it has anything to do with ol' Rammy. He was only a kid (pardon the pun) during the goat incident. Could've been owned by an uncle or some other relative since Wakefield is his middle name. Zeng8r (talk) 17:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I could not get a handle on when it happened. It looks like before 1905. On the 1935 census in Tampa for instance, Rammy is called Wakefield Ramsdell. He's in Lakeland in 1924. His dad Wendell is buried there. PS I wonder if you could find anything on Ray Parmely. Cake  (talk) 17:25, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

On another note, the info about Rammy's life after UF was up in the lede, so I moved it down into a new section. Don't like the section title, maybe you can come up with a better one.

Also, it would be nice if we (well, you, lol) could find and re-link the Joey Johnson Tampa Trib article. It's the most used reference and must have a ton of good info, but most links to tbo.com were broken when the Tampa Bay Times bought the Trib and absorbed their website, and the rest broke when tampabay.com got a redesign just last week. Love working on these old-time guy's articles, but it's hard to find reputable info. I have the Tom McEwen book on Gator history somewhere, I'll page through it at some point to see if I can find some Rammy tidbits. Zeng8r (talk) 14:00, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I have it too. As close as it gets to mentioning Ramsdell on the cited page, 59, is here: "The only thing resembling a respectable victory was a 14-7 defeat of Tulane". Guess I cited it to say that was the biggest win of the season. All the book ever says about Ramsdell, it seems, is on the next page: "McCoy had found a potentially great quarterback in A. Wakefield (Rammy) Ramsdale [sic], a versatile four sport athlete. Ramsdale broke his leg playing baseball at Auburn and would not be the same. There was no substitute for the triple-threater." Cake  (talk) 17:04, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh well, guess I won't bother hunting for the book then. Hey, that blurb from McEwan's book and the Tribune article you re-discovered both mention that he was a four sport athlete, but they only list football, baseball, and basketball, as does the current wiki-article text. I'd guess his 4th sport was track, wonder if we could find out. Perhaps an archived Seminole yearbook would be helpful. Zeng8r (talk) 20:15, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I noticed it also said he was a triple threat, though I've never heard of him punting. The fourth sport was definitely track. The Seminole backs this up. Also, check the 1915 team article. Despite several sources saying Rammy scored 4 TDs on Mercer, the one contemporary source I found says 3. Cake  (talk) 21:10, 8 November 2017 (UTC)