Hootie Ingram
Ingram in 1989
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 2, 1933 Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| Playing career | |
| 1952–1954 | Alabama |
| Position(s) | Defensive back, quarterback, halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1956 | Manatee HS (FL) (assistant) |
| 1957 | Brookwood HS (AL) |
| 1958–1959 | Tuscaloosa County HS (AL) |
| 1960 | Wake Forest (assistant) |
| 1961–1963 | Virginia Tech (assistant) |
| 1964–1966 | Georgia (assistant) |
| 1967–1969 | Arkansas (assistant) |
| 1970–1972 | Clemson |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1981–1989 | Florida State |
| 1989–1995 | Alabama |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 12–21 |
Cecil W. "Hootie" Ingram (born September 2, 1933) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played for the University of Alabama from 1952 to 1954 and was selected as an All-SEC defensive back in 1952. He worked as an assistant football coach at several colleges, including the University of Georgia and University of Arkansas before receiving a head coaching assignment at Clemson University from 1970 to 1972. He was an administrator with the Southeastern Conference in the 1970s and later served as an athletic director at Florida State University (1981–89) and Alabama (1989–95).
A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Ingram is the son of Wayne and Ella Ingram. He attended Tuscaloosa High School, where he received four varsity letters in basketball and three each in football and baseball. In his senior year, he was selected as an All-State halfback, elected to the All-Fifth District basketball team, and played East-West All-Star baseball game in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Tuscaloosa High School in 1951.
Ingram enrolled at the University of Alabama in the fall of 1951 where he was a multi-sport star. He won three letters each in football and baseball. He won acclaim as a football player for the Crimson Tide football teams from 1952 to 1954.
As a sophomore in 1952, Ingram was selected as an All-SEC defensive back. In December 1952, the United Press International ran a feature story on Ingram calling him the "Tide's Honorable Thief," due to his talent for intercepting passes. The story gave warning to Alabama's Orange Bowl opponent, "Pre-Orange Bowl warning to Syracuse: beware of Cecil Ingram, an honorable thief. The slender Alabama sophomore safetyman stole more passes thrown by opponents than any other man in the Southeastern Conference this year." His ten interceptions for 162 yards in 1952 (including two returned for touchdowns) tied the Southeastern Conference record for interceptions in a season. He added an eleventh interception in the 1953 Orange Bowl game on January 1, 1953, as Alabama crushed Syracuse 61–6. He also set an Alabama Orange Bowl record with an 80-yard punt return in the 1953 Orange Bowl.
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