College football program of Alabama State University
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
Hornets football players during a game in 2018
Championships
National
Alabama has won one national championship
Conference
Alabama State has won six conference championships.[citation needed
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]
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
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References
External links
Venues Bowls & rivalries People Seasons National championship seasons in bold
East Division West Division Championships & awards
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