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.

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.

C. Bowden Wyatt attended UT from 1935-1939, and was a UT football All America in 1938 and head football coach of the Volunteers from 1955 to 1962. He was national Coach of the Year in 1956.

George Robert “Bob” Woodruff (1939) was men’s athletic director at UT in Knoxville from 1963 to 1985. He was former head football coach at Baylor and at the University of Florida. A member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, he died in 2001.

Bergein F. “Gene” Overholt attended UT in Knoxville and graduated from the UT Health Science Center in 1961. He designed an early version of the flexible fiberoptic colonoscope, an important tool in cancer detection. He has been president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American Society of Outpatient Surgeons.

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley (1984) won the Olympic gold medal in 100-meter hurdles in 1984. She was an All-America and NCAA champion. She is president of Women in Cable and Telecommunications.

Matthew H. Vogel, who attended UTK from 1975 to 1980 and 1984 to 1987, won the Olympic gold medal in 100-meter butterfly and the 400-meter medley relay.