Bachelor of Ugliness


The Bachelor of Ugliness was a title conferred onto Vanderbilt University's most popular male undergraduate. One of the highest honors that a student could achieve, it was given to the male undergraduate student believed to be most representative of ideal young manhood and the class's most popular member, devised by William H. Dodd, a professor, in 1885.

List of recipients

YearRecipient
1885T. P. Branch
1886B. G. Waller
1887A. E. Clement/R. E. Crockett
1888Frank Taylor
1889Jeff McCarn
1890V. S. Roenborough
1891Horace E. Bemis
1892J. A. Robins
1893R. W. Clawson
1894W. W. Craig
1895W. R. Hendrix
1896H. N. Pharr
1897Myles P. O'Connor
1898Phil Connell
1899S. V. Gardner
1900W. A. White
1901F. S. Palmer
1902John Edgerton
1903B. F. Carr
1904Ben Clary
1905E. B. Tucker
1906Ed Hamilton
1907A. M. Souby
1908Bob Blake
1909N. T. Dowling
1910Bruce McGehee
1911John W. Bull
1912Ray Morrison
1913Bruce Wade
1914Enoch Brown
1915Tom Brown
1916Irby Curry
1917Pope Shannon
1918Ammie Sikes
1919Chas R. Richardson
1920Manning Brown
1921Grailey Berryhill
1922Scotty Neill
1923Jess Neely

Many more men have been voted into this honor, such as the first African-American basketball player at Vanderbilt, Perry Wallace, who earned the title in 1970.