Four inducted in Calhoun County Sports Hall of Fame

Four new members were added to an elite group as members of the Calhoun county sports hall of fame saturday.  Roosevelt Coleman, Jimmy Luttrell, Darrell Malone, the late Buddy Moore and the late Bobby Wilson were inducted saturday in ceremonies held at the newly renovated oxford civic center..  Luttrell and Wilson have been neighbors in Glencoe for most of their adult lives after athletic careers at Jacksonville State University. Luttrell, known as “Big Toe,” was a superstar in football at Jacksonville High School and also played basketball. Wilson, whose nickname is “Baldy,” was a basketball star at Calhoun County High (now Oxford) School in addition to playing football.  Wilson was selected because of his success as a long-time football and basketball coach at Glencoe High, for his efforts in getting the Jacksonville state mascot changed from Eagle Owls to Gamecocks and for playing a part in changing the school colors from purple and gold to red and white.  Wilson previously had been inducted into the Etowah County Sports Hall of Fame, the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame and the Jacksonville State University Athletics Hall of Fame. Inductee Darrell Malone was an all-star football player at Jacksonville State under former coach Bill Burgess. He later played in the National Football League for both Kansas City and Miami.   Coleman played college ball for Jake Gaither at Florida A&M on teams that went 29-1 and won a national championship..  Moore was the golf professional at Anniston’s Municipal Golf Course for more than 40 years. His legacy is with young players, starting the county junior golf tournament and volunteering as a high school golf team coach for 15 years.  Bobby Wilson was from Piedmont and had a long history in both football and baseball. He was All-SEC at Ole Miss, played professional baseball for a few years, coached high school teams for 12 years and the Carson-Newman College team for 23 years. He won an NAIA national championship and served on the Olympic Baseball Committee.