East Tennessee State University

Dr. Howell H. Sherrod played tennis at ETSU from 1935 to 1938 and then returned as attending physician for the Buc athletes from the early 1970s until 1979. Sherrod was named Outstanding Alumnus in 1978 and while at ETSU was a letterman on the tennis team and a member of the Buccaneer Band and Orchestra. This well-rounded athlete was inducted into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984.