1931 East Tennessee State Teachers football team

1931 East Tennessee State Teachers football
ConferenceSmoky Mountain Conference
Record1–4–2 (0–1–2 Smoky Mountain)
Head coach
CaptainAlex Kennedy
Seasons
← 1930
1932 →
1931 Smoky Mountain Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maryville (TN) $ 2 0 1 5 2 3
Carson–Newman 3 1 1 6 2 1
Tusculum 2 1 1 6 1 1
King 1 2 1 2 7 1
Lincoln Memorial 1 3 1 4 7 1
Milligan 0 1 3 2 2 4
East Tennessee State Teachers 0 1 2 1 4 2
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1931 East Tennessee State Teachers football team was an American football team that East Tennessee State Teacher's College, Johnson City—now known as East Tennessee State University (ETSU)—as a member of the Smoky Mountain Conference in the 1931 college football season. They were led by second-year head coach Jack S. Batey, who was a graduate of Middle Tennessee State Normal School (B.S.) and University of Tennessee (M.S.). He coached football and basketball for two years and baseball for six years and taught physical education and agriculture from 1930 to 1935 at the school. It was Batey's final year of coaching football at the school.[1]

  1. ^ Roberts, L. Thomas; Robertson, Jerry; Buc Football and Friends Foundation (August 29, 2007). East Tennessee State University Football. Tennessee: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738544243.