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  • Richard Coure

    Murphy Fair|Oct 27, 2022

    NOTE: Richard Coure played baseball and football at Cameron High School in Nashville (Class of 1969). He was a quarterback at Fisk University (Class of 1973). He head coaching career was at East Nashville (1980-1985) and Whites Creek (1986-2004) I was in my first year as head coach at Whites Creek (1986). At that time, we practiced from 7:00-9:30, took a break, and then came back at 11:00 for another practice later that same morning. We had just hit the field about 7:15 when a car drives up and...

  • Tribute to Tennessee High School Football Coaches

    Murphy Fair|Oct 20, 2022

    NOTE: Ken Colquette played football at Grundy County High School (Class of 1965) and Tennessee Tech (Class of 1969). He started his head coaching career at Bridgeport, AL and also served as head coach at Marion County (1980-1996), Vidalia, GA (1997-1999), Grundy County (2002-2003) and Sequatchie County (2012-2014). My second coaching stint in the early to mid ‘70s was as the defensive coordinator and head track coach at Dougherty High School in Albany, GA. We played a very competitive s...

  • Tribute to Tennessee High School Football Coaches

    Murphy Fair|Oct 20, 2022

    NOTE: Coach Frost played football at Lenoir City High School (Class of 1986). He graduated from M.T.S.U. (Class of 1992). His head coaching career began at Community High School (2007-2013). He is currently the head coach at Decatur County – Riverside (2016-present). My father-in-law, Larry Quinn, was the very first quarterback at Riverside High School. He's an avid sports fan who loves to win. I always give him a coach's shirt so that he looks like a member of the staff. While I was at C...

  • Tribute to Tennessee High School Football Coaches

    Murphy Fair|Sep 29, 2022

    NOTE: Graham Clark played played football at Dobyns Bennett H. S. (Class of 1973). He played football at Emory & Henry (Class of 1977). His head coaching career was at Chilhowee, VA (1980-1981) and Kingsport Dobyns Bennett (1993-2017). We always had a great rivalry with Oak Ridge during my long career at Dobyns Bennett. It seems like great stories came about anytime we played Oak Ridge. I've got a handful of them, but I think my favorite one was in 2006. If you've ever been to a game at Oak...