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We are the Hunstville Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Hunstville, Al 35804
We are the Hunstville Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
POBOX 566
Hunstville, Al 35804
Two brothers with connections to Huntsville High School and Vanderbilt University are now members of the Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame. Sam Sullins, the center and captain of Vanderbilts 1963 football team, was inducted into the Hall of Fames second class in 1990. He is now joined by his brother, Bob, the co-captain of Huntsville Highs 1959 football team and later a three-year letterman as a running back at Vanderbilt (1961, 1962, 1964). The winner of the McCann Shoe Company Award as the co-most valuable player at HHS in 1959, Bob Sullins played for Coach Clem Gryska, who later joined Paul Bear Bryants staff at Alabama. Born in Knoxville, TN, on December 5, 1941, two days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bob and his family moved to Huntsville in 1957. When we moved from Oak Ridge to Huntsville it was a most difficult time, but that summer I found the newly formed Huntsville Swim Team and Coach Gryska. Sullins credits Gryska for motivating him and teaching him new skills that enabled him to overachieve in both football and track. The manner in which I was accepted in Huntsville by my peers and my coaches was without a doubt the single most defining moment in my life at that time. Im forever grateful for having been able to compete in the Huntsville sports scene. Following his graduation from Vanderbilt, Sullins remained in the Nashville area, working for Clements Paper Company and later for Robinson-Humphrey and then Morgan Keegan. Since 1988, he has been a stockbroker for Smith Barney. He was a member of the Middle Tennessee Officials Association from 1968 until 1981 and President of the Nashville Chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in 1967 and 1968. Sullins and his wife, Nancy, have two children, Stacy Murphy of Birmingham and Beth Buchweitz of Roswell, GA.
