Bum Day

Bum Day
	"Bum" with Tech in 1918
Georgia Bulldogs – No. 1
Position	Center
Personal information
Born:	August 3, 1898; Nashville, Georgia, U.S.
Died:	January 30, 1988 (aged 89); Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Career history
College	Gordon (1916–1917); Georgia Tech (1918); Georgia (1919–1921);
High school	Porter Military Academy
Career highlights and awards
	SIAA championship (1918, 1920, 1921); Consensus All-American (1918); 1st Walter Camp All-American from the South; All-Southern (1919, 1920, 1921); Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame (1984);

Ashel Monroe Day (August 3, 1898 – January 30, 1988), nicknamed "Bum Day", was an American college football player who was a center for both the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia. He was the first Southern player ever selected first-team All-America by Walter Camp, who had historically selected college players from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other Northeastern colleges.

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