Alan Ingram spent 43 years coaching high school football in South Georgia.
Ingram was head coach at Miller County High and Seminole County High, small schools located in rural, farming communities.
"Most of the kids that I taught and coached would graduate and wind up working on the farm or at some other type of manual labor job," Ingram said. "My big thrill was to get some of those kids out of here, get them to college where they could get an education and do something different."
More than a dozen of Ingram's former football players wound up reaching the National Football League while many, many more became doctors, lawyers and educators.