Inductees

Sometimes it is truly mind-boggling to realize what Pat Summitt has accomplished during her illustrious career. As a player, she won an Olympic silver medal in 1976 and won a…

Harley “Skeeter” Swift grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, and is remembered as always having a basketball with him everywhere he went. He played the sport at George Washington High School…

George Taliaferro, a native of Gates, Tennessee, was the first African American drafted by an NFL Club.  Taliaferro was selected by the Chicago Bears in the thirteenth round of the…

Lookout Mountain native Roscoe Tanner is, quite simply, the greatest tennis player Tennessee has ever produced. His name became widely known in the tennis world during a dazzling career that…

Mike Taylor, a graduate of North Side High School in Jackson, Tennessee, was a football team captain, MVP and a member of the AAA all-state team. Taylor was an all-state…

Trey Teague was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee.  He graduated from The University School of Jackson in 1993 where he played basketball, competed in track, and was a Superprep…

The name Edward S. Temple will always be held in high honor and regard throughout the halls of Tennessee State University. And well it should. For forty-four years, Temple served…

Ira Templeton has been an outstanding figure in Tennessee amateur golf for more than forty years as a competitor on the local, state, and national levels. Known for his exceptional…

“I’d just rather live in Memphis, that’s all.” Throughout an illustrious major league baseball career filled with honors, awards, and World Series victories with the New York Giants, William “Memphis…

Born in 1906, Gene Thompson’s entry into athletics came first as a participant. At Virginia High School in Bristol, Thompson played football and baseball, where he had some help from…

In 1950 H. B. “Bus” Thompson began a career at Fisk University in Nashville which brought him and the school national recognition for over twenty-eight years. There are few roles…

Marv Throneberry is one of the greatest athletes ever to come out of West Tennessee. The Fisherville native was All-Memphis and all-state in football and baseball while playing at South…

Nashville-born Bob Tillman was blessed with so much athletic ability; he wasn’t sure which sport appealed to him the most. Tillman graduated from Isaac Litton High School where he was…

Fred Toney set two records as a professional baseball pitcher which will never be broken. Perhaps a bold statement, but in this age of $100 million baseball contracts, where pitchers’…

Carl Torbush was named head coach of the East Tennessee State University football program on June 21, 2013, and tasked with resurrecting a program that kicked off a new era in Fall…

A. L. “John” Treadway, born in 1906, began his athletic career at Happy Valley High School in Carter County, where he lettered in basketball and baseball. No doubt he also…

George Treadwell loved and respected both the game of golf and its players. He expected you to play the game of golf, or the game of life, fairly, as he…

It has been written that Frank Trundle was a true class act. His legacy is well known in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee where most who knew him called him…

John Wade Tucker – “Coach Tucker” to most – is known as a high school football coaching legend. After an amazing 43-year career, Tucker retired from coaching in 1997 as…

If you want something badly enough, you’ll keep at it. James R. Turner wanted to pitch in the major leagues. He played fourteen years in the minors before getting that…