James W. Hicks was a

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player for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama from

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. He was selected All-Southern in 1914. Coach

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said of his player Hicks: "There is no other guard down here who can break through the line and run down under punts as Hicks has done all the year."

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