Tam Hollingshead (born c. 1955) is an
American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
coach. Since early 2015 he has been Director of External Operations for the
Mustangs
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of
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...
in
Dallas, Texas
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,
SMU Mustangs football
Accessed 2015-04-18. after serving there as Director of High School Relations for June Jones
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. Hollingshead previously spent two seasons at Temple High School, and three seasons as the inaugural head coach at newly established Rockwall Heath High School
Rockwall-Heath High School is a public high school located in Heath, Texas, and is one of two high schools that serve the Rockwall Independent School District, the other being Rockwall High School. The school enrolls students from 9th to 12th g ...
.
From 1994 to 2002, Hollingshead was an assistant to R. C. Slocum
Richard Copeland Slocum (born November 7, 1944) is a former American football player and coach who is currently a special assistant to the president at Texas A&M University. He has also served as interim athletics director at the university from ...
at Texas A&M University
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, coaching tight end
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s and special teams
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. Prior to that, he served as head coach at famed Permian High School
Permian High School is a public high school located in Odessa, Texas and is one of two high schools in the Ector County Independent School District. It was the subject of the book '' Friday Night Lights'', which in turn inspired a movie and TV ...
of Odessa, Texas
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Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 ...
, guiding the Panthers to a Class 5A State championship in 1991 and amassing a 43–4–2 record in four seasons. He had previously been an assistant coach at Permian, including the 1988 season covered in the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger.
Hollingshead is a 1975 letterman at SMU and prepped at Brownwood High School under legendary coach Gordon Wood.
References
External links
Official bio at SMU
1950s births
Living people
People from Brownwood, Texas
SMU Mustangs football players
Texas A&M Aggies football coaches
SMU Mustangs football coaches
Year of birth missing (living people)
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