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“If you love coaching, it gets in your blood and stays there.” So said “Boots” Donnelly, whose impressive twenty-season career as head football coach at Middle Tennessee State University came… 4q2y51

It may be cliché, but they just don’t make ‘em like Nathan W. Dougherty anymore. Few people devote so much of their lives and accomplish so many things for the…

Born in Pennsylvania in 1930, Andrew Kozar enrolled at the University of Tennessee in 1948. Over thirty years later, Dr. Kozar’s illustrious affiliation with the school as an athlete, alumnus,…

Although as football fans, we tend to think that bowl games have been played since the beginning of time, the fact remains that individuals, through hard work and vision, actually…

Ken Dugan is one of the best things to happen to baseball in Tennessee. As head baseball coach at Nashville’s David Lipscomb University, Dugan led his teams to a remarkable…

William B. Dunavant, Jr. is a native Tennessean and Chairman of the Board of Dunavant Enterprises, Inc. in Memphis. He graduated from The McCallie School in Chattanooga, attended Vanderbilt University…

Coach Lin Dunn, one of the true pioneers in women’s basketball history, is a graduate of The University of Tennessee at Martin. Three years after Dunn graduated, UT Martin had…

As a player at Sweetwater High School in Sweetwater, Tennessee, Bill Dupes was the captain of the football team and a star tailback and linebacker from 1943-1947. He played on…

A McMinnville native, Jimmy Earle’s first collegiate basketball experience came as a player at Martin College. He became Martin’s leading scorer, averaging 17.7 points per game. Earle subsequently transferred and…

Born in Warren, Pennsylvania, Jack Eaton earned a basketball scholarship to Washington & Jefferson College. Graduating in 1950, at the start of the Korean War, he went into the Air…

To all those familiar with Tennessee Tech athletics over the past four decades, the name Hooper Eblen rings a familiar note. For it was Eblen, more than any individual, who…

Thomas F. Elam of Union City was appointed to the University of Tennessee’s Athletics Board in 1951 and to the school’s Board of Trustees in 1956. A knowledgeable observer of…

It is hard to believe there was a time not long ago when a college lineman weighing 195 pounds was the largest man on his team! Ernest Eldridge was such…

Who knows how far Judy Eller Street might have gone as a professional golfer? One thing is for certain, she could not have gone much farther as an amateur. A…

Dale Ellis played basketball for the University of Tennessee from 1979-1983 and led the Vols to the NCAA tournament all four years. Ellis was a two-time first team All-American and…

You can still find old college football players from the mid-1960s who can recall tackles delivered by Tennessee linebacker, Frank Emanuel. A native of Newport News, Virginia, Frank Emanuel played…

Anyone who has ever attended a minor league baseball game expects surprises. Since the great players are not around long enough to draw the crowds, minor league fans come out…

Jimmy England was an All-State guard at Knoxville’s Holston High School. He was selected to the All-State team as a junior and senior. In the 1966-67 season, he was named…

A key to Coach E. B. “Red” Etter’s remarkable success has always been his fine character, best illustrated in his own words: “Whatever honors and awards that have come my…

If we look back at some of the most successful high school coaches in our nation’s history, W. Hickman Ewing Sr. must be among them. As a prep player in…