Leslie "Buck" Spinks (July 1, 1903 – March 15, 1968) was an American athlete, coach, and military officer who played football at Auburn University (then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute), coached men's basketball and football at Bates College, and was the commandant of cadets at Marion Military Institute.

[2] Bates won the Maine state championship in 1929 and 1930 and in 1932, Morey and Spinks were rewarded with three-year contract extensions.

[4] That same year, Spinks married Kathleen Sanders, a physical education instructor for women at Bates.

[8] While at Bates, Spinks took summer courses at New York University and earned his master's degree in education in 1937.

[11] In 1942, he was promoted to major and sent to Fort Sill for four weeks of training at the United States Army Field Artillery School.

[12] He was later promoted to lieutenant colonel and, after a course at Fort Bragg, was sent to Camp Gordon to activate a new field artillery observation battalion, which was present when the Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River on April 25, 1945.