News Article: Couple of great articles today on my father in law, Lester Smith … HOF former coach at Foley HS.

[BamaNation]

Couple of great articles today on my father-in-law, Lester Smith … HOF former coach at Foley HS.

Foley set to honor 2 coaching legends Friday night

Lester Smith and Bud Pigott will be honored Friday when the field at Foley’s Ivan Jones Stadium is named for the two former Lions coaches.

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Foley's Lester Smith, Bud Pigott had lasting impact on players

Foley coach legends Lester Smith and Bud Pigott will be appropriately honored Friday night when the Lions host rival Daphne.

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[Tideflyer]

Couple of great articles today on my father-in-law, Lester Smith … HOF former coach at Foley HS.

Foley set to honor 2 coaching legends Friday night

Lester Smith and Bud Pigott will be honored Friday when the field at Foley’s Ivan Jones Stadium is named for the two former Lions coaches.

www.al.com

Foley's Lester Smith, Bud Pigott had lasting impact on players

Foley coach legends Lester Smith and Bud Pigott will be appropriately honored Friday night when the Lions host rival Daphne.

www.al.com

Coach Ivan Jones was at Foley , a legend certainly himself, when I was in high school at Fairhope in the mid-60s. They were our main rival back then in all sports. Don`t know if that`s still the same now with more schools now on the Eastern Shore.

 

[BamaNation]

Coach Ivan Jones was at Foley , a legend certainly himself, when I was in high school at Fairhope in the mid-60s. They were our main rival back then in all sports. Don`t know if that`s still the same now with more schools now on the Eastern Shore.

I've been at practice years ago when Coach Jones - who was in his late 70's or early 80's - was getting down in a 3-pt stance to show lineman how to fire off the line. Pretty amazing.

 

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Here's an article in Sports Illustrated from 1984 talking about Coach Bull Sullivan who Coach Smith played for at Scooba, MS (E. Miss. JC - the same one of Last Chance U fame a few years ago). SI named Sullivan the "Toughest Coach There Ever Was" in this article by Frank Deford.

When my wife and I first met and I first met Coach Smith, he was talking about some of these crazy stories from when he played JC ball. Particularly the story about playing with no pads on. I said "I've got an SI magazine that talks about that!" ... sure enough, I went back home and found it in my archives. There are a couple pages just about Coach Smith in the article.

The Toughest Coach There Ever Was

Robert Victor Sullivan, whom you've surely never heard of, was the toughest coach of them all. He was so tough he had to have two tough nicknames, Bull and

vault.si.com

 

[Tideflyer]

Here's an article in Sports Illustrated from 1984 talking about Coach Bull Sullivan who Coach Smith played for at Scooba, MS (E. Miss. JC - the same one of Last Chance U fame a few years ago). SI named Sullivan the "Toughest Coach There Ever Was" in this article by Frank Deford.

When my wife and I first met and I first met Coach Smith, he was talking about some of these crazy stories from when he played JC ball. Particularly the story about playing with no pads on. I said "I've got an SI magazine that talks about that!" ... sure enough, I went back home and found it in my archives. There are a couple pages just about Coach Smith in the article.

The Toughest Coach There Ever Was

Robert Victor Sullivan, whom you've surely never heard of, was the toughest coach of them all. He was so tough he had to have two tough nicknames, Bull and

vault.si.com

Those were the days when you were considered a sissy and a mama`s boy if you asked for water during practice.