Bill Redd
William Cooper Redd 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. He was captain of the basketball and football teams in 1920. He also played baseball. He subsequently served as coach and athletic director, and organized Chattanooga’s most successful professional basketball team, the Rail-Lites. He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.
