Education
Patton attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Patton attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was selected All-Southern in 1931. He also later officiated some games. He was also an All-American in 1931 while at Sewanee.
He went on to play for the Staten Island Stapes, a football team that failed during The Depression
Jay Dee served as a lieutenant colonel in the calvary of the United States. Armed Forces during Neil Edmond, an earlier Sewanee player, was the same rank.
After the war he moved to, Virginia, where he ran a printing business and also ran the Virginia State Penitentiary printing press
Patton was a prominent tackle for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, a member of the school"s All-time football team