Facts:   - class: graduate    - death date: 15 october 1959      - currentposition: guard    - birth date: 10 december 1874    - school: vanderbilt commodores    - name: lucius burch    - pastschools: vanderbilt -lrb- 1894 & ndash ; 1897 -rrb-    - death place: nashville , tennessee    - birth place: nashville , tennessee   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lucius e. burch .
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lucius edward `` luke '' burch -lrb- december 10 , 1874 -- october 15 , 1959 -rrb- was a college football player and prominent surgeon in the south who was once dean of vanderbilt university medical school .he was the father of lucius e. burch , jr. .