Bill Redd
American football and basketball player (1900–1986)
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Born | (1900-02-26)February 26, 1900 Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
Died | January, 1986 |
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Position | Center |
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William Cooper Redd (February 26, 1900 – January, 1986) was an athlete at the University of Chattanooga. He was an All-Southern center and player-coach on the basketball team, leading the team to a runner-up finish in the 1923 SoCon tournament.[1][2] He was captain of the basketball and football teams in 1920. He also played baseball.[3] He subsequently served as coach and athletic director,[4] and organized Chattanooga's most successful professional basketball team, the Rail-Lites.[5] He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.
References
- ^ "All-Southern Basketball Team Picked by Writers". Asheville Citizen-Times. March 5, 1923. p. 8. Retrieved November 12, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Archived copy Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jenkins, David (March 2006). Baseball in Chattanooga. Arcadia. ISBN 9780738542140.
- ^ "Southern Conference" (PDF). soconsports.com. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
- ^ "Redd, William Cooper "Bill" « Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame".
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- Johnny Spiegel (1915–1916)
- No team (1916–1918)
- W. V. Jarrett (1918–1920)
- Bill Redd (1920–1928)
- Harold Drew (1928–1931)
- Humpy Phillips (1931–1933)
- Pop Keyser (1933–1940)
- Perron Shoemaker (1940–1942)
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- Bill O'Brien (1945–1946)
- Perron Shoemaker (1946–1947)
- Bill O'Brien (1947–1954)
- Ben Boulware (1954–1958)
- Tommy Bartlett (1958–1962)
- Leon Ford (1962–1972)
- Ron Shumate (1972–1979)
- Murray Arnold (1979–1985)
- Mack McCarthy (1985–1997)
- Henry Dickerson (1997–2002)
- Jeff Lebo (2002–2004)
- John Shulman (2004–2013)
- Will Wade (2013–2015)
- Matt McCall (2015–2017)
- Lamont Paris (2017–2022)
- Dan Earl (2022– )