currentpositionplain death_date death_place birth_place article_title highschool birth_date college name
tackle december 19 , 2004 memphis , tennessee mecklenburg county , north carolina pug pearman
 harding h.s. -lrb- charlotte , nc -rrb- may 1 , 1929 university of tennessee pug pearman
pug pearman

william andrew `` pug '' pearman -lrb- may 1 , 1929 -- december 19 , 2004 -rrb- was an american football player .
a native of north carolina , pearman attended the university of tennessee where he played at the tackle position for the tennessee volunteers football team .
he was a member of the national championship 1951 tennessee team and was selected by the associated press , the football writers association of america , and the newspaper enterprise association as a first-team player on their 1951 college football all-america teams .
after graduating from tennessee , pearman served in the u.s. army corps of engineers from 1952 to 1954 .
he was thereafter employed until 1970 by exxon and later by vol oil company and in the 1980s by browning-ferris industries .
