Ed Boggs

Ed Boggs was a standout on the football field at Orrville High School and Livingston University where he was a letterman in 1951. Boggs landed his first head coaching assignment in 1953 with Choctaw County High School where his only team finished with a 6-3 record. Boggs would do what every coach dreads in 1955 when he followed a legend at Pine Hill High School. Coach Glenn Daniel had been extremely successful at Pine Hill and had moved on to Luverne the previous season. Coach Boggs lived up to the task over the next seven seasons. His teams finished a combined 40-32-2 and the 1956 team finished the year with a 9-0-1 record. His next stop came at Washington County High School, in Chatom, from 1963-1980. Boggs 1964 team went 8-0 and the 1968 squad finished the season with a 9-0 mark. He followed that up with another 9-0 season in 1969. Coach Boggs retired from the public school system following the 1980 season. Boggs accepted the head coaching job at Stokes Academy in 1983 where he remained for the next seven seasons until he retired as a head football coach after the 1989 season. His overall record is 180-129-5 during his tenure as a head football coach in Alabama. Coach Ed Boggs died at the age of 78, in Pine Hill, on June 27, 2005.