Inductees

A success as a football player and coach, Cliff Norvell will also be remembered as one of the finest officials in the Southeastern Conference. Norvell was an umpire and a…

The seventeenth of Tennessee Head Coach Robert Neyland’s 38 maxims for playing successful football was “You can’t do yourself justice without getting and staying in condition.” Physical conditioning was a…

King Oehmig became head coach of the boys’ and girls’ golf teams at Chattanooga’s Baylor School in 1998. His passion for junior golf and his love of his alma mater,…

One of the most successful amateur golfers in the history of our state, longtime Lookout Mountain resident Lew Oehmig has won three USGA Senior Amateur championships, which is the most…

The high school coach is so influential in not only the physical development of the student-athlete, but perhaps more importantly, the emotional development of young men and women. Tury Oman…

Claude Osteen of Caney Springs, Tennessee is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched for six different teams: the Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds, Washington Senators, Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros,…

Much of Tennessee Tech’s athletic success today can be attributed to P.V. “Putty” Overall. He came to Tech in 1923 at a time when its athletic facilities and manpower were…

John Overton, Yale Class of 1917, was only one of the thousands whose lives were lost in the trench-fighting of World War I. His obituary stood out from the others,…

Thomas “Tommy” Otto Owen was the football coach at Montgomery Bell Academy for all but six seasons from 1953 until 1992, compiling an incredible record of 276 wins, 112 losses…

Bill Pack began officiating high school football games in central Tennessee in the year 1939 and except for a three-year stint in the armed forces, refereed until his retirement in…

Former Vanderbilt Head Coach Fred Pancoast has a life story that has inspired many. Raised in Pensacola, FL, Pancoast attended the University of Tampa where he was a four-year letterman…

Long before Doug Flutie, the modern-day college football star who found fame in the Canadian Football League, there was Knoxville native Jack Dickerson, known to all Mississippi State University and…

Cindy Parlow Cone was elevated from Vice President to President of the U.S. Soccer Federation on March 12, 2020. Cone became the first female President of U.S. Soccer, the second…

Called the “Showman Shooter from Somerville,” Herb Parsons was an expert marksman with a shotgun and rifle. Hunters still tell “Herb Parsons” stories today, decades after his death. Parsons enjoyed…

Recognized as one of the nation’s noted authorities on sports officiating, “Buddy” Patey began refereeing after his football playing days at Union University. He served in the SEC for twenty…

Bob Patterson grew up in New Jersey starring in every sport at Penns Grove High School, earning 13 varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball and track. In 1950, he received…

Mike Paxton, a native of Memphis, was an outstanding high school baseball and football player. He was a standout at Oakhaven High School from 1969-1971 and received a baseball scholarship…

William A. “Pug” Pearman was born May 21, 1929. After an outstanding career at Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was “All-Everything,” Pearman was invited to the…

Carolyn Peck, a Jefferson City native was Tennessee’s Miss Basketball for 1984.  She went onto play college basketball at Vanderbilt University from 1985 to 1988, averaging 10.6 points and 5.8…

The great Tennessee Vols football teams of the late 1930s under General Robert Neyland were filled with fantastic players, and one of the best was Ike Peel. A native of…