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Morris Higginbotham

  • Class
  • Induction
    2003
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Head Coach
Morris Higginbotham was the Head Football Coach at West Alabama from 1967-69, leading the Tigers to a 19-9-2 record, including a 9-2 mark in 1968 and an appearance in the Peanut Bowl in Dothan, Ala. The native of Birmingham, Ala., earned Alabama Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year honors for the efforts of his 1968 team. Before coming to Livingston, he was one of the most successful high school coaches in Alabama, compiling a 111-27-8 record. After leaving UWA, he returned to high school coaching and finished his career with 196 wins before retiring in 1982. In 1991, he was inducted into the Alabama High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame for the years he spent at Hueytown, Enterprise, Talladega, Etowah County, Bibb County, Scottsboro and Hewitt-Trussville High Schools.
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