C.C. Humphreys - Athletic Director - Football Coaches

South Florida

Oct 25 (Sat)

11 a.m.

C.C. Humphreys

Title:
Athletic Director

From the 1953 media guide:

Athletic director at Memphis State since 1947, "Sonny" Humphreys is among the nation's youngest A.D.'s in the country.

The 38-year-old overseer of the Tigers' intercollegiate athletic program -- and chairman of the Department of Health and Physical Education -- played two years of football at Tennessee with Coach Ralph Hatley, held down an end post on the Vol squad in 1935 after Hatley graduated.

For his performance in Orange and White, he was mentioned on several "All" teams during each of the three years he was a regular, learning a lot of football from Bob Neyland in the bargain.

He went to what was then the junior college at Martin, Tenn., as line coach in 1936, coming to Memphis State in 1937 as Allyn McKeen's assistant.

He and McKeen put together the undefeated Tiger team of 1938, and when McKeen went to Mississippi State in '39, Humphreys became head coach at Memphis State. In three years, he produced a 17-14 won-lost record, had his best team cut in half in 1941 by the impending war. With 28 men on the roster, seven of them freshmen, he nevertheless took seven victories against two losses in the last pre-war season.

After a tour in the Pacific with the Navy during the war, he returned to Memphis State in 1947 in his present position, and, since that time, he and Hatley have teamed to build Memphis State to an all-time high.