Football
DURHAM, N.C. – Former Duke football letterman and Rhodes Scholar Rex Adams passed away on September 1 at the age of 84.
Adams lettered the 1961 season at Duke under Hall of Fame head coach Bill Murray as the Blue Devils went 7-3, captured the ACC Championship and closed the season with a 37-13 victory over Notre Dame to finish the year ranked 20th in the Associated Press final poll.
A native of Oak Hill, W. Va., Adams graduated from Duke in 1962 with degrees in English and political science, and was awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He later studied at Merton College at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Adams went on to serve as the dean of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business from 1996-2001, and later was a member of the institution’s Board of Trustees.
Adams is survived by his wife, Ellen Cates Adams; three children, Laura Adams, Nick Adams and Sarah Delehanty; son-in-law Patrick Delehanty; and six grandchildren, Annie, Lilly, Courtney and Riley Delehanty, and Natasha and Zachary Partnoy. His sister, Kay Adams Simmons, preceded him in death.
Memorial gifts in his honor may be made to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and the Rex Adams Scholarship Fund at the Fuqua School of Business.
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