James Nollner "Stein" Stone Sr.[1] (April 18, 1882 – August 25, 1926) was an American football and basketball player and coach.

[7] On another all-time team of Southerners, one finds "For center we shove in Stein Stone of Vanderbilt, who is about as good as man as the South ever saw.

"[10] His catch on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake[11] to set up the touchdown run in by Honus Craig that beat Sewanee, for the SIAA championship in 1907, was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.

[14] The Tigers won just a single game, though captain Stick Coles was selected second-team All-Southern.

Stein later worked as an engineer in Bristol, Tennessee, where he and his wife, the former Camille Evans, whom he married in 1911, lived.