Deadline approaching to order Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame tickets
Friends and fans who want to attend the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame induction of former Golden Eagle player and coach Bill Dupes have until Friday, Jan. 29 to order tickets for the Feb. 19 dinner in Nashville.
Dupes will be ninth from Tech into the Tennessee
Sports Hall of Fame
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Friends and fans who would like to attend the
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame induction of Former Tennessee Tech
football player and assistant coach Bill Dupes have just a few
weeks remaining to order tickets for the February 19th dinner at
the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville.
The deadline to order tickets -- either individual seats or a full
table -- is Friday, January 29. The cost of the dinner is $125 per
person, or a full table of eight seats is $1,000. Tickets may be
ordered by calling (615) 242-4750 or by sending an email request
to: lpowell@tshf.net.
As a standout high school player at Sweetwater High School and
Tennessee Military Academy, Bill Dupes was offered a scholarship to
attend Tennessee Tech University where the three-year starter was
elected team captain his senior year, was named All-Ohio Valley
Conference and Honorable Mention Little All-American.
Dupes began his coaching career at Tech serving as an assistant
helping the Eagles to a Tangerine Bowl victory and winning two Ohio
Valley Championships.
In 1963 he took over an Austin Peay program that had not had a
winning season for more than a decade. In his second season at the
helm he led the Governors to an 8-1-1 record earning unanimous
selection as OVC Coach of the Year. During his tenure at APSU he
had 23 players earn first-team All-OVC honors in addition to four
being selected first-team Little All-American.
He returned to high school coaching in 1976, first at TMI and
later his prep alma mater, Sweetwater where he led his team to a
state title in 1993. He retired from coaching in 1998 ending a 44
year career.
He was inducted into the Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame in
1979.
Dupes will become the ninth person from Tennessee Tech to be
inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Previous inductees
include Raymond "Bull" Brown, Hooper Eblen, Tom Fann, P.V. "Putty"
Overall, Emmett Strickland, Wilburn Tucker, Star Wood and Jim
Youngblood.
For more information on the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, visit
the website at: www.tshf.net/index.htm
