Tink Gillam
| Playing career | |
|---|---|
| 1915–1919 | Birmingham |
| 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 | 11–13–1 (baseball) 36–12 (basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Basketball 2 SIAA (1924, 1925) | |
| 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
- ^ http://dlgmedia1-www.galib.uga.edu/data/newspapers-pdf/mer/mer1925/mer1925-0033.pdf
- ^ Wilder, Robert E. (August 12, 2011). "Gridiron Glory Days: Football at Mercer, 1892-1942". Mercer University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7v9s1khv1v_1/text
- ^ https://archive.org/details/Birmingham_College_Reports_1916/page/n11
- ^ http://www.bscsports.net/information/hall_of_fame/index