| Sheldon Fitts | |
| Birth Date: | November 1, 1899 |
| Birth Place: | Jemison, Alabama, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Alabama, U.S. |
| Position: | Quarterback, Halfback |
| Pastschools: | Georgia (1920) |
| Currentnumber: | 31 |
| Highschool: | Georgia Military College |
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Sheldon Fitts (November 1, 1899 – October 26, 1985) was an American college football player and lawyer.
Fitts was born in 1899 in Jemison, Alabama.[1] He prepped at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville.[2] Fitts had a half-sister, author Mary Ward Brown.[2]
Fitts played as a quarterback and halfback for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia, a member of the "ten second backfield" of 1920. Fitts caught the pass to beat Furman[3] and starred in the 56–0 win over Florida.[4] [5]
While at Georgia, Fitts was also a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity,[6] and played as a center fielder on the Bulldogs baseball team.[6] He was awarded varsity letters in both football and baseball.[7] Georgia lists Fitts as only earning a football letter for the 1920 season,[8] with contemporary newspaper reports from the 1921 season noting that he was unable to play due to a knee injury.[9] While he was reported to have returned to the team in October 1922,[10] there are no contemporary accounts of him playing again for Georgia.
Fitts went on to become an attorney. At the time of his death in 1985, he was a resident of Marion, Alabama.[11] He was survived by a son, Sheldon Jr.,[12] and predeceased by his wife, Frances, who died in 1984.[13]