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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wayne Hamilton: 1978 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Season Recap

Front row: Holt, Umphrey, Chapman, Pugh, Jacobs, McElroy, Neal, Harris, Shealy, Rutledge, K. Jones, Crumbley, Tucker, Legg. Second row: Haney, Nathan, Perrin, J. Jones, Coleman, Sutton, Spencer, McNeil, Ikner, Bolton, Jackson, Allman, Turpin, Wingo, Haynes, Junior. Third row: Ferguson, Ogilvie, Clements, Hill, Whitman, Braggs, Scott, DeNiro, Smith, Barnes, Hufstetler, McCarty, Stephenson, Palmer, Boothe, Robbins. Fourth row: Allison, Bunch, Boler, Cowell, Searcey, Brock, Sebastian, McCombs, Hannah, Krauss, Aydelette, Faust, Clark, Sanderson (tr.), Thomas (mgr.). Back row: Vines, Mauro, Booker, Krout, Travis, Parker, Boyd, Lyles, Gilliand, Lyons, Hamilton, Inman, McGriff, Rumley, Theis, Lancaster.

 1978

Won 11, Lost 1

 

SEC Champions

National Champions

20 Nebraska 3 Birmingham Sep. 2
38 Missouri 20 Columbia Sep. 16
14 Southern Cal 24 Birmingham Sep. 23
51 Vanderbilt* 28 Tuscaloosa Sep. 30
20 Washington 17 Seattle Oct. 7
23 Florida* 12 Tuscaloosa Oct. 14
30 Tennessee* 17 Knoxville Oct. 21
35 Virginia Tech 0 Tuscaloosa Oct. 28
35 Miss State* 14 Birmingham Nov. 4
31 LSU* 10 Birmingham Nov. 11
34 Auburn* 16 Birmingham Dec. 2
 
Sugar Bowl
14 Penn State 7 New Orleans Jan. 1
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*SEC Game


Head Coach: Paul “Bear” Bryant

Final Ranking: 1st (AP), 2nd (UPI).

Permanent Captains: Marty Lyons, Jeff Rutledge, Tony Nathan

All Americans: LB Barry Krauss, DT Marty Lyons, C Dwight Stephenson.

All Southeastern Conference: OT Mike Brock, OT Jim Bunch, DE Wayne Hamilton, DE E.J. Junior, LB Barry Krauss, S Murray Legg, DT Marty Lyons, C Dwight Stephenson.

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Listen live on my790am or www.my790am.com Saturday April 21 2012. 

Former Leesburg High School, University of Alabama, San Diego Chargers and Tampa Bay Buccaneer Football Standout Wayne Hamilton makes his second appearance on the Lake County Sports Show April 21, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.
Wayne Hamilton, former Leesburg High School Tory Harrison (University of Southern Mississippi, and Hartford Colonels UFL, Omaha Beef IFL), Leesburg High School senior linebacker Jordan Tucker, Florida State University and NFL player Greg Johnson (Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), and will be the featured guests along with the show host Billy Matthews (The Voice Of The Leesburg Yellow Jackets), Sonny Bronson (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Host), Allison Crawford (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Co-host) and Gerald Lacey (Carver Heights Quarterback Club Staff Writer).

Gerald Lacey (Carver Heights Quarterback Club Staff Writer), Allison Crawford (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Co-host), Sonny Bronson (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Host),  Lake County Sports Show Host Billy Matthews (The Voice Of The Leesburg Yellow Jackets).

 Below is a short list of Hamilton's accomplishments:

-Leesburg High School Football Varsity Letters 1974, 1975, 1976

-Leesburg High School Basketball Varsity Letter 1974, 1975, 1976

-1974 Leesburg Commercial All-Area Boys Basketball Honorable Mention Team

-1974 Leesburg Commerical All-Area Football Second Team Defense

-1975 Boys Basketball All-Big Sun Conference Team

-1975 Class AAA Football Defense All-State Honorable Mention Team
-1976 Parade High School Football All-American

-1976 Daily Commercial All-Area Basketball Team 17ppg, 14rpg

-1976 All-Big Sun Conference Boys Basketball Team

-1976 Boys Basketball Rotary Tournament Champion

-1976 Boys Basketball Rotary Tournament All-Tourney Team

-1976 Leesburg High School Athletic Booster Club Best All Around Lineman

-1976 Class AAA Football First Team Defense All-State

-Alabama Crimson Tide Football Varsity Letters 1977, 1978, 1979

-5th All-Time Best College Recruiting class according to Sports Illustrated

-Overall Record at Alabama 41-5

-1977 Coaching News Football All-American

-All-SEC 1977, 1978, 1979

-1979 College Football All-American

-1979 College Football Academic All-American

-1977 National Runnerup

-1978 National Champion

-1976 Liberty Bowl Champion

-1977, 1978, 1979 Sugar Bowl Champion

-1979 National Champion

-1979 Lee Roy Jordan Headhunter Award

-1977, 1978, 1979 SEC Football Champion

-1977 voted most outstanding defensive player of the game #7 Alabama Crimson Tide @ #1 USC Trojans.

-1980 Sugar Bowl Champion

-1980 Hula Bowl All-Star

-1980 San Diego Chargers Draft pick


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Wayne Hamilton On The Lake County Sports Show

#94 Wayne Hamilton (Leesburg High School, Okahumpka, Florida)

Alabama’s Barry Krauss (36) stops Penn State’s Matt Suhey on a third down play at the goal line as the Crimson Tide held on to beat the Nittany Lions 14-7 in the 1979 Sugar Bowl and captured the national title. CDT FILE PHOTO

January 3, 1979

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