Willie Hunter is a former
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
player and coach. He served as the head football coach at
Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Found ...
from 1990 to 1996.
Hunter played college football at
Fort Valley State College
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Fort Valley State University (FVSU, formerly Fort Valley State College and Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School) is a public land-grant historically black university in Fort Valley, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia and ...
and also played professionally for the Atlanta Spartans of the
Atlantic Coast Football League in 1964. After teaching and coaching football in the
Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with superintendent Dr. Lisa Herring. The system has an active enrollment of 54,956 students, attending a t ...
system for 33 years, he resigned in 1989 and was hired as the
defensive coordinator
A defensive coordinator is a coach responsible for a gridiron football (American football) team's defense. Generally, the defensive coordinator, the offensive coordinator and the special teams coordinator represent the second level of a team's c ...
at Clark Altana. In January 1990, Hunter succeeded
William M. Spencer as head coach after Spencer was fired.
Head coaching record
College
References
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Living people
American football defensive backs
Atlantic Coast Football League players
Clark Atlanta Panthers football coaches
Fort Valley State Wildcats football players
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches
High school football coaches in Georgia (U.S. state)
Schoolteachers from Georgia (U.S. state)
African-American schoolteachers
African-American coaches of American football
20th-century African-American educators
20th-century American educators
20th-century African-American sportspeople