{{Short description|American athlete and judge (1906–1972)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Larry Creson | other_names = Kitty | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|1|17}} | birth_place = Memphis, Tennessee | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=y|1972|6|19|1906|1|17}} | death_place = | occupation = Judge | module = {{Infobox college football player|embed=yes |currentposition=End |pastschools=Vanderbilt (1927) |currentnumber=20 |height_ft=6 |height_in=0 |weight_lb=173 |highlights= *All-Southern (1927) }} }} '''Lawrence Barkley "Kitty" Creson''' (January 17, 1906 – June 19, 1972) was a college football and baseball player who later served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.<ref name=just/>
==Vanderbilt University== He graduated with a LL B. from Vanderbilt University in 1928.<ref name=just/> At Vanderbilt, Creson was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANHmAAAAMAAJ&q=creson|journal=The Record|author=Sigma Alpha Epsilon|year=1928|page=16|title=Berry Grant's All-Southern S. A. E. Eleven|volume=48|issue=1}}</ref>
===Football=== Creson was a prominent end for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University, a teammate and target of College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Bill Spears.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19271222&id=9TpPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3784,2236684|title=Dixie Football Players Ready|date=December 22, 1927|work=Prescott Evening Courier}}</ref> Wallace Wade called Creson one of the best tackle blockers he ever saw.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19370918&id=fh9PAAAAIBAJ&pg=6395,1956996|title=Just Between Us|author=Bill Rollow|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=September 18, 1937}}</ref> Creson often played next to inexperienced tackles, and was called upon to block the other team's tackle.<ref name=1927VU/>
====1927==== He was selected All-Southern in 1927.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1787&dat=19271127&id=XbUeAAAAIBAJ&pg=4004,922652|title=Spears Given Highest Vote in Selection|date=November 27, 1927|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune}}</ref> Creson was noted as an exemplary product of former end and assistant coach Hek Wakefield.<ref name=1927VU>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/digcoll/pubs/1927_VU-Football.pdf|title=1927 Vanderbilt Commodores|access-date=December 28, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192114/http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/digcoll/pubs/1927_VU-Football.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Baseball=== He also was a pitcher on the baseball team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65554744/|title=Tennessee Loses To Vanderbilt|date=May 15, 1927|work=Kingsport Times|page=2}}</ref>
==Judge== Creson was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Governor Frank G. Clement on August 1, 1965, following the death of Justice Andrew O. Holmes.<ref name=just>{{cite web|url=http://www.tschsociety.org/justices.html|title=Justices|accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref> He served in that capacity until his death, in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/tennessee/supreme-court/1973/496-s-w-2d-480-2.html|title=State v. Dunn}}</ref>
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