Tom "Doc" Smith (1998) - Georgia Southern Athletics Hall of Fame

Tom "Doc" Smith

Induction:
1998

Georgia Southern’s head athletic trainer from 1971-94.Built school’s sport medicine division from start to finish -- beginning with staff of only one student handling seven intercollegiate sports (all men) to four-man, 13-student department handling 15 sports. Initiated departmental physician and orthopaedic surgeon program, recruiting area doctors to serve all student-athletes. Served as assistant athletics director from 1975 to 1980 before assuming role of interim athletic director during the 1980-81 academic year. Said Erk Russell, “What happened with football at Georgia Southern could not have happened without "Doc.”