Cecil "Hootie" Ingram was Alabama's athletics director from 1989-95. He was also a football star for the Crimson Tide in the early 1950s, and spent many years as a coach and administrator at schools such as Clemson and Florida State and in the Southeastern Conference office. (Photo courtesy of the Paul W. Bryant Museum) Paul W. Bryant Museum

Cecil "Hootie" Ingram, a former Alabama football star and athletic director, died Monday. He was 90. Ingram, who had been injured in a fall in March, died at a Birmingham hospital, an athletic department spokeswoman said, citing information from the family.

Hootie Ingram, who served as Clemson’s head coach from 1970-72, passed away Monday morning according to reports from WVUA in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and AL.com. He was 90 years old. Ingram was officially hired as Clemson’s head coach on Dec.

Cecil “Hootie” Ingram, a longtime college athletics administrator who was the athletic director at his alma mater, Alabama, and at Florida State during the Seminoles’ rise to national prominence, has died.

Cecil "Hootie" Ingram has died at 90. He was an All-SEC Alabama football player and later became athletics director for UA as well as Florida State.