COY PLEMONS – 1954

He was a 4 year letterman in both football and baseball. In football, he was noted as a hard nosed running back who could carry several would be tacklers over the goal line. In the “game of the decade” (the 14-14 tie with perennial State Champion Oak Ridge), he scored a touchdown coming from a pass in the flat that went 80 yards. In the Thanksgiving Bowl that year against Chattanooga City, he also scored in a cold, rainy game. In baseball, he was a hard hitting outfielder who averaged over .360 for his career with several home runs. He was heavily recruited in football by at least 12 major schools and signed a grant-in-aid scholarship to The University of Tennessee. He was drafted into the Army and played regimental baseball while stationed in Italy where he hit over .300 in a league comparable to AA professional baseball in the states. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2005.