Tink Gillam
American football, baseball, and basketball coach
Playing career | |
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1915 – 1919 | Birmingham–Southern |
Position(s) | Halfback |
Coaching career ( HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1923 – 1924 | Mercer (assistant) |
1925 – 1927 | Clemson (assistant) |
Basketball | |
1923 – 1925 | Mercer |
Baseball | |
1927 | Clemson |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
11
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13
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1 (baseball)
36 – 12 (basketball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Basketball
2 SIAA (1924, 1925) |
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Awards | |
Birmingham – Southern Sports Hall of Fame | |
M. Park "Tink" Gillam was a college football , baseball , and basketball coach. He won back-to-back Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball titles as coach at Mercer , earning him the title "the Napoleon of Southern basketball". [1] He then was head baseball coach at Clemson . At both, he was an assistant on the football team. [2] [3] He played as a halfback at Birmingham College . [4] He was inducted into the Birmingham – Southern Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. [5]
References
- ↑ "N.C. Declines To Play Bears For The Honor" (PDF) . The Mercer Cluster . March 6, 1925. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 12, 2019 . Retrieved April 16, 2022 .
- ↑ Wilder, Robert E. (August 12, 2011). Gridiron Glory Days: Football at Mercer, 1892-1942 . Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780881462678 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Image 1 of the Kentucky Kernel, October 9, 1925 - Kentucky Digital Library" . Archived from the original on 2019-08-12 . Retrieved 2019-08-12 .
- ↑ "Birmingham College Reporter" . 1916.
- ↑ "Birmingham-Southern College - Official Athletics Website" .
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