Eugene Noble "Buck" Mayer (February 14, 1892 – October 21, 1918) was an American football player.

[6] Mayer and Bob McWhorter were deemed "the class of the backfield men of the south" during the 1913 season.

In 1915, Mayer led Virginia to an 8–1 record, was one of the country's leading scorers with 105 points, and was selected as a first-team All-American by International News Service sports editor Frank G. Menke and Eastern football expert Parke H.

[14][15] At the end of the 1915 season, The Washington Herald wrote:Mayer is one of the greatest half backs the South has produced in years, and is universally recognized as such.

[19] Mayer was married at Charleston, West Virginia, in March 1916 to Agnes Elizabeth Chilton (1896–1974).

[22] During World War I, Mayer served as either a private in the quartermaster's corps and/or in a machine gun company in the United States Army.

In October 1918, he died at age 26 at Camp Joseph E. Johnston in Jacksonville, Florida, a victim of the 1918 flu pandemic.