Tuscaloosa native was All-SEC safety in 1952, AD from 1989-95
Cecil "Hootie" Ingram was Alabama's athletics director from 1989-95. He was also a football star for the Crimson Tide in the early 1950s, and spent many years as a coach and administrator at schools such as Clemson and Florida State and in the Southeastern Conference office. by Tommy Ford, a longtime Alabama athletics department staffer and close friend of the Ingram family. Funeral services are set for Saturday at Calvary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, with visitation from 10 a.m.
“Alabama didn’t have to recruit me,” Ingram told author Kirk McNair for the 2005 book What It Means to Be Crimson Tide. “I had been practicing to be an Alabama player since I was in about the fourth grade. And I spent a lot of time on the Alabama practice fields watching as a kid. I got letters from other schools, but I was never going anywhere else.
Ingram also coached at Virginia Tech , Georgia and Arkansas before becoming head coach at Clemson in 1970. His Tigers went just 12-21 in three seasons before he left to join the Southeastern Conference office as associate commissioner. “I had known Gene Stallings when he was an assistant at Alabama and when he was at Texas A&M, and I knew he had done a great job for coach Bryant and coach Landry,” Ingram told McNair. “I knew he could take the heat and do the job, and that’s why I chose him. I think Sayers may have been skeptical, but he wasn’t after he met Gene. And I don’t think we could have gotten anyone who could have done a better job.
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