We extend our condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Robert Rubright, who died Thursday, June 7, 2016, at age 89.

He was a loyal parishioner and Eucharistic Minister at Saint John XXIII University Parish, where we serve in Knoxville, TN. 

Dr. Rubright was physician emeritus for the sport medicine department at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. From 1973 to 1993, he served as the team physician for the university’s football program.

The university remembers:

“In the early 1970s, Dr. Rubright and several physicians around the country, most of whom were involved in college health, saw the need for involvement in athletic medicine by primary care professionals. As a consequence of those early efforts, we now have now have fellowship-trained primary care sports medicine specialists. These physicians in concert with their orthopedic colleagues continue to enhance the care and treatment of athletes at all levels of competition.”

Dr. Rubright’s wife, Edwena or “Eddy,” died in May, 2011.

WVLT television in Knoxville has published a story the life of Dr. Rubright.