One of the premier high school football coaches in the history of the Alabama High School Athletic Association...Little All-America at Jacksonville State after serving in the Air Force...chosen as one of top 100 athletes in 100 years of athletics at JSU, and inducted into JSU Sports Hall of Fame...head coach at Hanceville High from 1955-56, at Gordo from 1957-58, at Scottsboro from 1959-65, at Butler High School of Huntsville from 1966-79, and at Lincoln County High in Fayetteville, TN from 1979 until his retirement in 1988. His 34-year record as a head coach was 271-76-7...won state football championships in both Alabama (1965) and Tennessee (1982)...twice runner-up in state finals at Butler...coach of the year in Alabama In 1955, 1956 and 1960, and coach of the year In Tennessee in 1982 and 1984.