This Hall of Fame inductee is the quarterback of UT teams of 1946-49, Mr. Lee Pete another of the outstanding players brought to UT after World War II by Coach Bill Orwig. Although records were not kept as extensively in Lee's day as they are now, several facts testify to his achievements, facts about the strength of his arm and his ability to throw touchdown passes. "He looks at a 35-yard completion as a short gain," wrote a Blade scribe after Lee had hooked up with Chuck Hardy on a 77-yard scoring pass during his freshman season. The writer went on to tell how Lee stood on his own eight yard Line and threw the ball on the fly to HARRY at the opponent's 30. As a sophomore Lee was first-team All-Ohio and had a "special delivery arm," the Blade said of him. As a junior, Lee was named Most Valuable player in the Glass Bowl win over Oklahoma City, a game in which he passed for 167 yards and two touchdowns after getting out of a hospital bed at 10 that morning. (he had been injured in a Tuesday scrimmage and had been in the hospital, unknown to the press, from Thursday for special therapy). Besides completing 16 passes in the game, The Blade said Lee "Also played a tremendous defensive game, making tackles, knocking down passes, recovering fumbles." Lee played less as a senior because a new coach "grounded" the offense with the arrival on campus of Hall of Fame running back Emerson Cole. Still, all told, Lee Pete finished his UT career with 23 touchdown passes, a figure that still stands third best in the Rocket history, bettered only by the great Chuck Easley and Gene Swick. Lee's pass completion percentage of .652 in 1947 still ranks as an all-time UT single season record. Besides his football prowess, Lee lettered as a baseball outfielder in 1947 and 1948 and had a batting average of .344. As an alumnus, Pete helped found the Varsity-Alumni football games of the 1960's and early 70's and coached the alumni team for the first none contests with the varsity, for many years he was the color commentator on WSPD Radio Broadcasts of Rocket football games.