Tink Gillam


M. Park "Tink" Gillam was a college football, baseball, and basketball coach. He won back-to-back Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball titles as coach at Mercer, earning him the title "the Napoleon of Southern basketball". He then was head baseball coach at Clemson. At both, he was an assistant on the football team. He played as a halfback at Birmingham College. He was inducted into the Birmingham-Southern Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.