Famous Players Under Coach LeRoy Sprankle
| Name | College Accolades | Notable Accomplishments |
|---|---|---|
| Albert H. Agett | Michigan State football and track, All-American Football Honorable Mention, 1937 College All-Star Game | PhD. Organic Chemistry. Kicker for Detroit Lions. |
| John R. Bell | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football | asst. football coach at Georgia Tech (1954–56, 1959–66), AD and head football coach at SW Louisiana (1957–59), AD and head football coach at East Tennessee State University (1966–73), ETSU Hall of Fame inductee |
| Ed Cifers | Tennessee football and track team captain | played with the Washington Redskins (1941–42, 1946) and the Chicago Bears (1947), Sports Illustrated Silver Anniversary winner, President of Charles H. Bacon Company |
| Robert "Bob" Cifers | Tennessee football | played with the Detroit Lions |
| Denver Crawford | Tennessee football team captain, College All-Star Game | drafted by the Green Bay Packers, played with the New York Yankees (1940 AFL), asst. football coach at Washington & Lee, Maryland, Mississippi State, and Minnesota |
| Darrell Crawford | starting QB at Georgia Tech, 2nd Team All-American, All-Star Game | played with the Chicago Cardinals, asst. football coach at the University of Richmond, Georgia Tech Hall of Fame inductee |
| Van M. Darsey | Adrian College football | President of Parker Rust-Proof Company and Tropical Paint Company, member of Board of Trustees at Adrian College |
| Milton DeVault | not available | two term mayor of Kingsport, TN |
| Bobby Dodd | starting QB at Tennessee, 1930 All-American | asst. football coach at Georgia Tech (1931–46), head football coach at Georgia Tech (1947–67), AD at Georgia Tech (1950–76), Georgia Tech Hall of Fame, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame inductee (both as a player and coach) |
| Paul Hug | Tennessee baseball, basketball, and track | head basketball and asst. football coach at Southwestern University in Memphis (now Rhodes College), coach at UT Martin (1939–41, 1946) |
| Bobby Peters | Princeton basketball, football captain, and track, Football All-American | 3-term Tennessee State Senator, Sports Illustrated Silver Anniversary All-American |
| Tommy Peters | Davidson baseball, basketball, football, and track, had the highest basketball PPG in the country final year | killed in World War II, silver star |
| Jimmy Quillen | not available | Tennessee House of Representatives (1954–62), U.S. House of Representatives (1963–97) |
| Nat H. Reasor | Mercer basketball, football, and track | played minor league baseball with the Macon Peaches, played with the Memphis Tigers (AFL), AFL All-Star Team, Mercer Hall of Fame inductee |
| Henry W. Sams | PhD from UNC | author, dean of English Department at Penn State |
| Beryl Shipley | Delta State basketball | head basketball coach at SW Louisiana (1957–73), head coach of the San Diego Conquistadors of the ABA (1975), Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, all-time most winningest coach at SW Louisiana |
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, players and/or coach:
“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“The woman ... turned her melancholy tone into a scolding one. She was not very young, and the wrinkles in her face were filled with drops of water which had fallen from her eyes, which, with the yellowness of her complexion, made a figure not unlike a field in the decline of the year, when the harvest is gathered in and a smart shower of rain has filled the furrows with water. Her voice was so shrill that they all jumped into the coach as fast as they could and drove from the door.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)