{"id":1823,"date":"2014-09-17T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:22:25","slug":"pickens-william-champ-1876-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"PICKENS, WILLIAM &#8220;CHAMP&#8221;, 1876-1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sports publicist and promoter; legendary Alabama football fan. Born&#8211; Sumter County, 1876. Education&#8211; University of Alabama. Christened the University&#8217;s band, &#8220;The Million Dollar Band&#8221;. Founded the Blue-Gray Game held annually in Montgomery; donated and named the Pickens Trophy awarded to SEC football champions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Public Library Service files,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Rebel in Sports. New York; A. E. Barnes, 1956.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Sports publicist and promoter; legendary Alabama football fan. Born&#8211; Sumter County, 1876. Education&#8211; University of Alabama. Christened the University&#8217;s band, &#8220;The Million Dollar Band&#8221;. Founded the Blue-Gray Game held annually in Montgomery; donated and named the Pickens Trophy awarded to SEC football champions. Source: Alabama Public Library Service files, Publication(s): A Rebel in Sports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}