Bob Suffridge, who attended UT in Knoxville from 1938 to 1940, was a three-time football All-American. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Lindsey Nelson (1941) was announcer for UT football, sports director and announcer for NBC, and announcer for the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. UT’s baseball stadium in Knoxville is named for him.

Edward M. “Ed” Molinski (1940) was a two-time football All-American (1939, 1940) and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. He also earned the M.D. degree from the UT Center for the Health Sciences. He was team doctor for the football squads at Mississippi State University and the University of Memphis.

Gene McEver, who attended UT in Knoxville from 1928 to 1931, was a football All-American in 1929. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

Herman Hickman attended UT in Knoxville from 1929 to 1931. He was a football All-America in 1931. He was on the original staff of Sports Illustrated and was head coach at Yale. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Beattie Feathers attended UT in Knoxville from 1931 to 1933. He was a football All American who played for the Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Green Bay Packers. He is in the College Football Hall of Fame.

George Cafego (1940) was a football All American in 1938 and 1939. He was an assistant coach at Tennessee from 1955 to 1984 and was a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

T. Nash Buckingham attended the Knoxville campus in the early 1900s. He was a judge in practically every field trial and retriever event in the nation, beginning in the 1930s. In 1964, he was elected to the Field Trial Hall of Fame. He was the author or co-author of nine books and hundreds of articles [...]

Thomas Davis “Tommy” Bridges (1929) pitched for the Detroit Tigers and for Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco. He was named to the American League All Star staff six times in the 1930s.

Joseph Wood Krutch (1915) was an author as well as drama critic and associate editor of The Nation. His The Measure of Man won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1955.