During his coaching career at Tennessee State University, forty members of the famed Tigerbelle teams represented their countries in Olympic competition.

Coach Temple led the team to 34 national titles, and 8 Tigerbelles have been inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, including Wilma Rudolph, Edith McGuire, Wyomia Tyus, and Chandra Cheeseborough, the current Women's Coach at TSU.

[2] On August 28, 2015, a statue to memorialize Temple was unveiled along a greenway near the right field entrance to First Horizon Park, a Minor League Baseball stadium in Nashville.

[4] In 2014, Temple was honoured by becoming the first USA Track & Field Legend Coach.

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