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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]

Tink Gillam
Playing career
1915–1919Birmingham–Southern
Position(s)Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1923–1924Mercer (assistant)
1925–1927Clemson (assistant)
Basketball
1923–1925Mercer
Baseball
1927Clemson
Head coaching record
Overall11–13–1 (baseball)
36–12 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Basketball
2 SIAA (1924, 1925)
Awards
Birmingham–Southern Sports Hall of Fame

References


  1. "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.
  2. Wilder, Robert E. (August 12, 2011). Gridiron Glory Days: Football at Mercer, 1892-1942. Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780881462678 – via Google Books.
  3. "Image 1 of the Kentucky Kernel, October 9, 1925 - Kentucky Digital Library". Archived from the original on 2019-08-12. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  4. "Birmingham College Reporter". 1916.
  5. "Birmingham-Southern College - Official Athletics Website".


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