Earl Sams

Earl Sams was a three-sport athlete at East Tennessee State University from 1929 to 1933, competing in baseball, basketball and football. He also served as student body president in 1933. After college, Sams spent 15 years coaching baseball, basketball and football at Happy Valley High School and Elizabethton Middle School. He later served as principal of Elizabethton High School. His contributions as both an athlete and educator earned him induction into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984.

Three-sport ETSU athlete; coached multiple sports in Carter County schools; Elizabethton High School principal

ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame, 1984