Francis Alexander "June" Juhan (April 27, 1887 – December 31, 1967) was an

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player and coach as well as an Episcopal bishop. He played

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for the

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team and was the first roving

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in the South, analogous to

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's status in football history nationally. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966, and is also a charter member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and a member of the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1924, he was appointed the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida.

Early years

Juhan was born in Macon, Georgia. Soon after, his parents, Charles J. Juhan and Minnie Hervey, moved to

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. He graduated from

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, in 1907.

Sewanee

Juhan also played

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, ran track, and was a

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champion at Sewanee: The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of

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. Juhan was a member of the 1909 football team, which won a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title. That year, Juhan was put on

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honorable mention. Juhan was selected for his position on George Trevor's all-time Sewanee football team. He was nominated though not selected for an ''Associated Press'' All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. The Juhan Gym, where Sewanee today plays

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, is named after him. It was dedicated on June 8, 1957. Juhan was a charter member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Juhan was also a member of the

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fraternity on campus, and Bishop's Commons on central campus is also named after him.

Coaching

Juhan assisted his alma maters football team from

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Ministry

After graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1911, he was ordained in the Episcopal Church, first as deacon in June 1911 and then as priest in June 1912 by Bishop James S. Johnston of West Texas. He married Vera Louise MacKnight Spencer on January 3, 1912, and together had two children. He then became the chaplain at the

and priest-in-charge of Goliad, Texas and

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. In 1913 he became chaplain at the

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, while in 1916 he became rector of Christ Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He was elected the fourth Bishop of Florida in 1924 and was consecrated on November 25, 1924, by Presiding Bishop

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. 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. He also became Chancellor of the University of the South in 1944, a post he retained till 1950. He served as Director of Development for Sewanee after 1956.

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