1. Henry Gorham Crisp was an American football, basketball, baseball and track coach and college athletics administrator.
16 Facts About Hank Crisp
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Hank Crisp served as an assistant and interim head coach with the Miami Seahawks and as a line coach at Tulane.
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Henry "Hank" Gorham Crisp was born on December 10,1896, at Crisp, North Carolina.
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At the age of five, Hank Crisp moved with his family to Falkland, North Carolina where his father operated a retail store.
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In recognition of his accomplishments as an athlete at VPI, in 1987 Hank Crisp was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame.
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Hank Crisp continued in his role as line coach through the end of the 1941 season when he took a leave of absence to serve as a civilian physical training instructor for the US Navy pre-flight school at the University of Georgia.
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Hank Crisp then returned to Alabama and again served as line coach for the 1945 season, before he left to take an assistant coaching position with the Miami Seahawks.
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On June 29,1946, the owner of the All-America Football Conference's Miami Seahawks Harvey Hester announced Hank Crisp had been hired as the last member of the inaugural Seahawks staff.
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On February 22,1947, Hank Crisp was hired to serve as line coach at Tulane under head coach Henry Frnka.
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At the time of the announcement, Hank Crisp indicated he would maintain his permanent residence and family service station in Tuscaloosa and report to New Orleans for spring practices and the regular season in the fall.
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Hank Crisp remained at Tulane through the end of the 1949 season, and on December 27,1949, officially returned to Alabama as line coach.
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Hank Crisp served as the Alabama men's basketball coach from 1924 through 1942 and again from 1945 to 1946.
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Hank Crisp remained in the position of athletic director through March 1940 when he was granted a leave of absence to regain his health due to a severe sinus issue.
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Hank Crisp was later appointed as interim athletic director at Alabama in March 1954 after the resignation of Pete Cawthon.
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Hank Crisp held the title of interim athletic director through February 1955 when University President Oliver Carmichael announced his full-time appointment to the position.
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However, on the eve of his induction, Hank Crisp died at University Hospital in Birmingham as a result of a heart attack he suffered at the Hall of Fame banquet on January 23,1970.