Hall of Fame

Horace Crump

  • Class
  • Induction
    2009
  • Sport(s)
    Administration, Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field
  • Alabama State
Background & Early Life
  • Horace Crump attended Alabama State University (ASU) as an undergraduate athlete. He played on the football team and was a member of the track & field team in the period 1963–1967.
  • He completed his bachelor’s degree and an Educational Specialist degree at ASU.
  • He later became Assistant Professor in the College of Education at ASU.
Coaching Career at Alabama State
  • In 1977, Crump was asked to return to ASU to lead its track & field program — which at that time was very small.
  • He expected to serve only briefly but instead coached for 31 seasons until his retirement in 2008.
  • When he started, the program was described as “non-existent”: only a handful of athletes in men’s and women’s track & field.