Spook is a
nickname
A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character. As a concept, it is ...
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Thomas Dowler (1903-1986), American football, basketball and baseball player and football and basketball coach
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Rupert Hanley (born 1952), South African cricketer
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Spook Jacobs
Forrest Vandergrift Jacobs (November 4, 1925 – February 18, 2011) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1954 through 1956 for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1954–56), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1956). List ...
(1925–2011), American Major League Baseball player
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Billy J. Murphy
Billy Jack "Spook" Murphy (January 13, 1921 – February 21, 2008) was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Memphis State University—now known as the University of Mem ...
(1921-2008), head football coach at the University of Memphis from 1958 to 1971
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Robert "Spook" Yaros- American rock drummer
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