| Silas Williams | |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 1888 |
| Birth Place: | Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1905–1909 |
| Player Team1: | Sewanee |
| Player Positions: | End |
| Coach Years1: | 1914–1915 |
| Coach Team1: | Sewanee (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1919–1921 |
| Coach Team2: | Chattanooga |
| Overall Record: | 10–15–2 |
| Awards: | 2× All-Southern (1908–1909) Second-team All-Time Sewanee football team |
Silas McBee "Sike" Williams (June 9, 1888 – December 8, 1944) was an American college football player and coach as well as a lawyer.[1]
Williams was a prominent end for the Sewanee Tigers of, selected second-team for its All-Time football team,[2] He stood 5'9" and weighed 150 pounds.
Williams was selected All-Southern[3] [4] and captain of the SIAA champion 1909 team.[5]
He also attended Harvard Law School,[6] receiving his LL. B. in 1913.[7]
There in a game of all-stars from Michigan, Sewanee, and Vanderbilt against Harvard, including Germany Schulz at center and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin at left guard, Williams played on Harvard's team against his former quarterback Chigger Browne.[8] [9] That game ended in a scoreless tie. A second game was played between Harvard Law School and a different "All-Southern" team. Williams scored the only points in the 5 to 0 victory when he ran in a touchdown off a Stephen Galatti pass.[10]
Williams served as the head football coach at the University of Chattanooga—now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga—from 1919 to 1921, compiling a record of 10–15–2.
Williams died on December 8, 1944, at the Robert Fulton Hotel in Atlanta, after suffering a heart attack.[11] [12]