Inductees

Vanderbilt graduate Fred Russell gave up a career in law to be a sportswriter. And Tennessee sports fans will forever be grateful that he did. Russell joined the sports staff…

Verties Sails, Jr., a native of Tennessee, was born in Rosemark in 1942. He graduated from Woodstock High School, LeMooyne-Owen College and received his Masters in Education from Memphis State…

Simply put, Doris Sams was a great all-round athlete. She excelled in absolutely every sport she played. Track, softball, tennis, ping pong, bowling, badminton, swimming, horseshoes, volleyball, basketball – you…

Sam Sanders’ football career began with a broken nose. When he was just ten years old in 1910, Sanders, who weighed less than 100 pounds, tackled the school’s star fullback….

Henry “Red” Sanders was an all-round athlete at Vanderbilt. He lettered three years in football, played basketball, and captained the baseball team. His first coaching job was on the Clemson…

Davis “Sandy” Sandlin served as the athletic trainer for the University of Chattanooga (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) for nearly forty years. During the summers, Sandlin worked with Joe Engel’s…

Although he never played sports himself, the esteemed Vanderbilt educator Dr. Charles Madison Sarratt was a man of deep integrity who truly believed in the importance of athletics. “When a…

For most in Middle Tennessee, the name Schmittou is synonymous with baseball. Of his many accomplishments, he might be best known for bringing professional baseball back to Nashville. A life-time…

Harry Schuh is considered one of the greatest football players to ever put on a Memphis State University uniform. An All-American in college, Schuh played from 1961 to 1964 under…

David Scobey is not partial to just one sport. As player, coach, and official, it seems as though there is hardly a sport in which he did not have his…

Larry Seivers (born 1954 in Clinton, TN) became one of Tennessee’s greatest receiving threats during his UT career and finished as the best of his era after leading the Tennessee…

John Seward’s brilliant basketball career at Duke University was outshined only by his remarkable record of community service to Johnson City and the state of Tennessee after his glorious college…

Mention the name of the late Marshall Abe Shires, and it brings to mind those hard-charging offensive and defensive lines in the “Golden Age” of University of Tennessee football in…

At an early age, Harry Shoemaker’s uncanny ability at golf baffled all who saw him. To watch him play, you might, at first glance, think your eyes were playing tricks…

2012 Inductee Brigadier General Austin Conner Shofner Born March 3, 1916 and raised in his ancestral home of Bedford County, Tennessee, Austin C. Shofner forever changed World War II. After…

Joseph Heath Shuler started his football career in Bryson City, North Carolina where he became a standout quarterback and led his team to two state championships. He was eventually named…

Joseph S. Signaigo’s distinguished career, on and off the football field, began at Catholic High School in Memphis. Not only was he a member of the “All Radio Eleven” football…

Tom Siler, veteran sports editor of the “Knoxville News-Sentinel” and national college football columnist for “Sporting News”, was a native of Jellico, Tennessee. Born on December 11, 1909, he attended…

Coach Petie Siler is a legend in Morristown and East Tennessee. He coached thirty years in TSSAA schools and served a two-year stint as University of Tennessee freshman coach in…

Tennessee State University women’s track and field programs of the 1960s were nothing short of magical; star after star bolted through the hallowed halls of TSU under the leadership of…