Alabama State Hornets football
The Alabama State Hornets are the college football team representing the Alabama State University. The Hornets play in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).
Hornet Stadium serves as the facility for Alabama State football games and practices. The 120-yard field turf playing field provides training to ASU football in all weather conditions. In June 2011, construction on the Houston Markham Football Complex was completed. The two-story, 30,000-square-foot facility serves as the new home of the football program.
Conference affiliations
- Independent (1901–1912)
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1913–1975)
- Division II Independent (1976–1981)
- Southwestern Athletic Conference (1982–present)
Championships
Conference
Alabama State has won six conference championships.[citation needed]
Year | Coach | Conference | Record | |
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1935 | Rufus Lewis | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | 9–2–1 | |
1936 | Rufus Lewis | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | 6–2–2 | |
1965 | Whitney L. Van Cleve | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Section B | 6–4–0 | |
1966 | Whitney L. Van Cleve | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Section B | 8–2–0 | |
1991 | Houston Markham | Southwestern Athletic Conference | 11–0–1 | |
2004 | Charles Coe | Southwestern Athletic Conference | 10–2 | |
Total Conference Championships: | 6 |
Rivalries
The Magic City Classic is the highest attended and most anticipated regular season ASU football game every year. The Hornets take on in-state rival Alabama A&M Bulldogs in Birmingham, Alabama.
The Turkey Day Classic is an annual event played yearly on Thanksgiving between ASU and another opponent, most recently Prairie View A&M in 2019 and has been played almost consecutively since 1924, except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alumni in the NFL
Over 20 Alabama State alumni have played in the NFL,[1] including:
- Reggie Barlow
- Keenan Issac
- Brad Baxter
- Earl Cochran
- Michael Coe
- Isaiah Crowell
- Tytus Howard
- Johnny Huggins
- Tarvaris Jackson
- Greg Jenkins
- Bill Johnson
- Terren Jones
- Zefross Moss
- Eddie Robinson
- Tyrone Rogers
- Ricky Smith
- Jylan Ware
Head Coaches
Name | Seasons | Record | Win Pct. |
Theodore Bradford | 1902–1904 | 0–2 | 0.000 |
J.A. Welton | 1905–1908 | 4–5–1 | 0.444 |
John Hope | 1909–1916 | 17–6–1 | 0.739 |
"Professor Kilpatrick" | 1917–1920 | 1–3–1 | 0.250 |
Ralph Harris | 1921–1925 | 21–13–3 | 0.618 |
Bertrand C. Jacobs | 1926–1928 | 16–10–3 | 0.615 |
Gaston F. Lewis | 1929–1933 | 31–13–4 | 0.705 |
Rufus Lewis | 1934–1942 | 42–32–9 | 0.568 |
John Brown | 1943, 1945–1948 | 10–24–1 | 0.249 |
Georgie Lockhart & E.B. Campbell a | 1944 | 0–7 | 0.000 |
James H. Dixon | 1949–1951 | 5–20–3 | 0.179 |
A.E. Simmons | 1952–1961 | 43–40–3 | 0.500 |
C.E. Anderson | 1962 | 0–8 | 0.000 |
Marino Casem | 1963 | 2–8 | 0.200 |
Whitney Van Cleve | 1964–1968 | 35–14–1 | 0.700 |
Henry Holbert | 1969–1972 | 21–21 | 0.500 |
Willie J. Parker | 1973–1976, 1984, 1986 | 16–38 | 0.296 |
George James | 1976–1983 | 43–39–2 | 0.524 |
Ron Mitchell (interim) | 1985 | 3–8 | 0.273 |
Houston Markham | 1987–1997 | 65–50–4 | 0.546 |
Ron Dickerson | 1998–1999 | 7–15 | 0.318 |
L.C. Cole | 2000–2002 | 20–15 | 0.571 |
Charles Coe III | 2003–2006 | 29–18 | 0.617 |
Reggie Barlow | 2006–2014 | 49–42 | 0.538 |
Brian Jenkins | 2015–2017 | 10–17 | 0.370 |
Donald Hill-Eley | 2017–2021 | 20–21 | 0.488 |
Travis Pearson (interim) | 2021 | 2–2 | 0.500 |
Eddie Robinson | 2022– | 13–9 | 0.591 |
Notes
- ^a At an unknown point in the 1944 season, Georgie Lockhart was replaced by E.B. Campbell. Both coaches share credit for the 1944 season.[2]
References
External links
- Official website
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- Cramton Bowl (1923–2012)
- New ASU Stadium (2012–present)
- Alabama A&M: Magic City Classic
- Tuskegee: Turkey Day Classic
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