Tennessee Tech has a new street honoring a distinguished alumnus, community leader and Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
Noble Cody Road is the new name of the semi-circle off McGee Boulevard outside Tech’s Hooper Eblen Center. Cody served as assistant basketball coach at Tech from 1951 to 1954, was a local principal and city council member and served two terms as Mayor of Algood.
Cody was inducted into the Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and was appointed by then-Governor Don Sundquist to the Tennessee Board of Regents in 2000.
Cody passed away in 2016.
