Bill Redd

American football and basketball player (1900–1986)
Bill Redd
Personal information
Born(1900-02-26)February 26, 1900
Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedJanuary, 1986
Career information
College
PositionCenter
Career highlights and awards
  • All-Southern (1923, 1924)

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

  1. ^ "All-Southern Basketball Team Picked by Writers". Asheville Citizen-Times. March 5, 1923. p. 8. Retrieved November 12, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Archived copy Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Jenkins, David (March 2006). Baseball in Chattanooga. Arcadia. ISBN 9780738542140.
  4. ^ "Southern Conference" (PDF). soconsports.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Redd, William Cooper "Bill" « Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame".
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Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball head coaches
  • Leslie Stauffer (1912–1913)
  • No team (1913–1915)
  • 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)
  • No team (1942–1945)
  • 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– )
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