Tazwell Leigh Anderson Jr.
(November 15, 1938 – September 26, 2016) was an American football player who played for the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Football Program represents the Georgia Institute of Technology in the NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Competitors in the sport of American football. The Yellow Jackets college football team competes in the NCAA Div ...
team and professionally for the
St. Louis Cardinals and the
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...
. While at
Georgia Tech, he was a member of the
Chi Phi Fraternity
Chi Phi () is considered by some as the oldest American men's college social fraternity that was established as the result of the merger of three separate organizations that were each known as Chi Phi. The earliest of these organizations was for ...
. In 2005, he was elected to the
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.
After his professional sports career, Anderson became an Atlanta-area realtor, and owns TazMedia and Taz Anderson Realty. He helped create the Centennial Tower (a large olympic flame commemorating the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
) next to
The Varsity.
Anderson was also deeply involved with the
Georgia Tech Athletic Association; for ten years, he was a trustee, and "has been
member of or chair of every major project for the Tech Athletic Association for the past 30 years."
He organized and served as developer of the 1985 renovation of
Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
He died on September 26, 2016 at the age of 77.
[http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/college/tech-great-taz-anderson-dies-at-77/nsfkf/ ]
References
External links
Taz Anderson Realty Company
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1938 births
2016 deaths
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
Atlanta Falcons players
St. Louis Cardinals (football) players
Players of American football from Savannah, Georgia
American football tight ends