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:
“Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)