East Tennessee State University

Lettering in all three sports, baseball, basketball and football, all four years, from 1946 to 1950, Gene Quarles started as quarterback for the Bucs and led the squad to a 23-11 record. From 1958 until 1967, Quarles served as head basketball coach and assistant basketball coach at Morristown High School. He then went on to become the head basketball coach at Morristown West High School from 1968 until 1977. He was inducted into the ETSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986.