Known as "Bounding Bill;" "Spears can run a team like a playing coach, drop kick, boot from placement, and pass cooly [sic] and accurately in the teeth of a charging line.

"[3] Edwin Pope writes "In 1925 McGugin came up with his finest quarterback in Bill Spears.

He led the Commodores three years in which they only lost to Georgia Tech and Auburn in '25, Alabama in '26.

[6] Spears received the most votes for the 1927 All-Southern team,[7] and was selected the first-team All-American quarterback by the Associated Press.

[8] The 1927 Vanderbilt Commodores included the nation's leading scorer in running back Jimmy Armistead.