Talk:Alfred Sharp

Move, & edits, to corrected spelling "Sharp"

The only two references given that work - i.e., not dead links, or behind a paywall - are #s 1 and 7. Both of these use the spelling "Sharp". Within the article, the two direct quotes that include his name both use "Sharp". Alfred's younger brother Vernon Sharp is spelled correctly, and within the Warren quotation, their brother Walter Sharp's name is also spelled correctly.
At Ancestry.com, of the first 46 references found for Alfred, including federal censuses, many city directories, other government documents such as draft card and Social Security Death Index, official photographs, etc, only two, the 1920 and 1930 censuses, use the "Sharpe" spelling, in both cases for the entire family; censuses are notorious for misspellings and other incorrect information. Of 31 family trees found, only two use the "Sharpe" spelling; it's not unlikely that those two trees "corrected" their spelling by checking it here at this misspelled Wikipedia article.
I moved the article from "Alf" to "Alfred" because Alf Sharp, a different football player, is already in use. Milkunderwood (talk) 05:42, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks; mostly worked off of yearbooks and newspapers. Cake (talk) 08:24, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you - it's a good article, for the general lack of supporting sources for this kind of material. I'm glad you could find that important Warren quote. What I suspect probably happened is either a newspaper, or possibly a yearbook, first spelled his name wrong, and it just took off from there, with the same mistake being repeated and never corrected. That kind of thing happens a lot. Milkunderwood (talk) 04:01, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

There are a few curiosities in the yearbooks. Would love to know more about his teammate Bomar's time in Gallatin, or if that's made up. Neat to see how large 6'4" was back then. Tall enough to be a basketball center as well in those days. Cake (talk) 15:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)