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{{Short description|American football and baseball player (1900–1982)}}
{{About|the American football and baseball player known as Red Barron|the World War I fighter ace|Manfred von Richthofen}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}{{Infobox college football player
|name=Red Barron
|image=TechJudyRed.jpg
|image_size=250px
|caption = Barron running behind [[Judy Harlan]]
|school=Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
|birth_date={{Birth date|1900|6|21|mf=y}}
|birth_place=[[Clarkesville, Georgia]], U.S.
|death_date={{Death date and age|1982|10|4|1900|6|21|mf=y}}
|death_place=[[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]], U.S.
|height_ft=5
|height_in=11
|weight_lb=180
|currentposition=[[Halfback (American football)|Halfback]]
|major=
|class=1922
|pastschools=
* [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]] (1918–1922)
|highlights=
* 3× [[Southern Conference|SoCon]] championship (1920, 1921, 1922)
* Second-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1922 College Football All-America Team|1922]])
* 4× [[College Football All-Southern Team|All-Southern]] ([[1919 College Football All-Southern Team|1919]], [[1920 College Football All-Southern Team|1920]], [[1921 College Football All-Southern Team|1921]], [[1922 College Football All-Southern Team|1922]])
* 2× All-Southern (baseball) ([[1921 College Baseball All-Southern Team|1921]], [[1922 College Baseball All-Southern Team|1922]])
* Tech All-Era Team ([[William Alexander (coach)|William Alexander]] Era)
* Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame
* [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]]
}}
'''David Irenus "Red" Barron''' (June 21, 1900 – October 4, 1982) was an [[American football]] and [[baseball]] player. Barron was a three-sport [[Varsity letter|letterwinner]] at the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]].<ref name="bees">{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/beesball/barron.html|title=Red Barron|publisher=beesball.com|access-date=2007-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060318090440/http://geocities.com/beesball/barron.html|archive-date=2006-03-18}}</ref> In football, he was named second or third team [[College Football All-America Team|All American]] twice, first-team [[College Football All-Southern Team|All-Southern]] four times, and was an inductee to Tech's Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/fame/halloffame.html| title=Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame| work=RamblinWreck.com| publisher=Georgia Tech Athletic Association| access-date=2007-03-04| archive-date=September 18, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918200605/http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/fame/halloffame.html| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ghsf">{{cite web|url=http://ghsfha.org/who48.php|title=Who's Who of Georgia High School Football (Pre-1948)|publisher=Georgia High School|access-date=2007-09-10}}</ref> He was also twice an All-Southern baseball player at Tech. His brother was [[Carter Barron]].

==Georgia Tech==
Barron was a prominent [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] for [[John Heisman]] and [[William Alexander (coach)|Bill Alexander]]'s [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football]] teams of the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] from [[1918 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|1918]] to [[1922 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|1922]]. Former Tech fullback Sam Murray, who played as a substitute for later Tech back [[Doug Wycoff]], was asked about a certain strong runner in the 1930s, "He's good. But if I were playing again, I would have one wish &ndash; never to see bearing down upon me a more fearsome picture of power than [[Judy Harlan]] blocking for Red Barron."<ref name="cast">{{cite journal|url=https://issuu.com/gtalumni/docs/1973_51_4/20|journal=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine|volume=51|title=The Cast of Characters|number=4|date=1973|page=18}}</ref>

Barron led the [[1921 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team|1921 football team]] in scoring and [[Rush (gridiron football)|rushed]] for 1,459 yards during the season, a school record at the time.<ref name=barron>{{cite web|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/71stats.pdf|title=Tech's "Old Time" Football Records|access-date=February 3, 2017|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130457/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/71stats.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also made All-Southern as an [[outfielder]] on the baseball team.<ref>{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|title=College Baseball|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1906398//|date=January 1, 1922|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate=March 2, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>

During the [[Cocking affair]], [[Eugene Talmadge]] attempted to place Barron in a new position as vice president of his alma mater; the move was widely criticized by Georgia Tech alumni, and Barron subsequently declined to accept the position.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ramblin' Wrecks from Georgia Tech: A Centennial History of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association|author1=John Dunn |author2=Gary Goettling |year=2007 |publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|isbn=978-0-615-16888-3}}</ref>

==Professional sports==

===Football===
Barron played with a group of all-star collegians representing [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] against [[Red Grange]]'s traveling [[Chicago Bears]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19251204&id=QDgsAAAAIBAJ&pg=3262,6743266&hl=en|date=December 4, 1925|via=[[Google news]]|title=Red Barron Will Return To Grid|access-date=March 22, 2015|work=The Spartanburg Herald}} {{Open access}}</ref> NFL league president [[Joseph Carr]] chose Barron for his All-star team of 1925.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCvNoVqXOmUC&pg=PA217 |page=217 |title=The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr |author=Chris Willis|isbn=9780810876705 |date=2010-08-19 |publisher=Scarecrow Press }}</ref>

===Baseball===
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Red Barron
|position=[[Left fielder]]
|image=
|bats=Left
|throws=Right
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=June 10
|debutyear={{Baseball year|1929}}
|debutteam=[[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]]
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=July 7
|finalyear={{Baseball year|1929}}
|finalteam=[[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]]
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.190
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=[[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=1
|teams=
*[[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]] (1929)
}}
Barron then played baseball professionally with the [[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]] in 1929.<ref name="bees"/>

==High school football==
He later became a [[high school football]] [[Coach (sport)|coach]]. Barron coached for Monroe A&M from 1924-38 with 66 wins, 48 losses and 9 ties, [[Dacula High School]],<ref name="ghsf"/> Rabun County, and Clayton high schools.

== See also ==

* [[List of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets starting quarterbacks]]

== References ==
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==External links==
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