AHS Athletic
     Hall of Fame

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 GEORGE NIXON     GRADUATED 1923     CHARTER INDUCTEE 1967
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GEORGE NIXON          AHS Class of 1923
        George (Butch) Nixon was a three-year varsity football tackle at Alliance High School and played freshman ball at Mount Union College in 1923.
          He and twin brother Ted, also a Hall of Fame inductee, played for Coach Carl G. Snavely’s 1924 Bellefonte, PA, Academy team which won the US Prep School championship, scoring 447 points and shutting out opponents.  George was a member of the boxing team too.
           The Nixon brothers then went to West Virginia University, 1925 through 1928, where George was an All-Tri-State left tackle choice in 1928, the same year he saw pro action with the Pittsburg Steelers.
           George was undefeated in Eastern heavyweight wrestling in 1927-28.  One of his biggest thrills was the “sinking” of the US Naval Academy team in the second year of wrestling at West Virginia and the first time ever defeating the Midshipman.
           He headed the Alderson, West Virginia, Junior College department of agriculture in 1929 and taught the Smith-Hughes course in Sullivan for two years.
          Earning his doctor of veterinary medicine degree at Ohio State University in 1936, Dr. George F. Nixon Sr. practiced veterinary medicine in Alliance for 22 years prior to his death, May 9, 1958.