Randy Hinson

Randy Hinson
	Hinson in 1940
Biographical details
Born	July 23, 1912; Kershaw, South Carolina
Died	May 24, 2006 (aged 93); Fairfax, Virginia
Playing career
Football, baseball
1933–1936	Clemson
Position(s)	Back (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Baseball
1939–40, 1946–47	Clemson
Football
1944–1947	Clemson (assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall	58–19–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	SoCon: 1947
Awards
	SoCon Coach of the Year (1947)

Claude Randolph Hinson Sr (July 23, 1912 – May 24, 2006) was a United States Army colonel and college football and baseball coach.

Born in Kershaw, South Carolina, in 1912, Hinson attended Clemson College, where he played football and baseball. He graduated from Clemson with a degree in agricultural economics in 1936. In 1939 and 1940, he returned to Clemson to coach the baseball team and the freshman football team, before joining the United States Army. During World War II, he served as an adviser to the French expeditionary force in North Africa and in Italy with the 755th Tank Battalion.^[1]

After the war, he returned to Clemson as a baseball and football coach. In 1947, the baseball team won the Southern Conference championship and qualified for the inaugural NCAA baseball tournament. Hinson was named SoCon baseball coach of the year.^[2]

Hinson then returned to the Army, serving in the Korean War, working with the International Military Sports Council in Germany, and was infantry representative to the U.S. Army Engineer School, retiring in 1964. Hinson taught the U.S. government and coached golf at Fort Hunt High School in Alexandria, Virginia, until 1979. He died in Fairfax, Virginia, in 2006.^[1]

Head coaching record[edit]

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Clemson Tigers (Independent/Southern Conference) (1939–40, 1946–47)
1939	Clemson	10–7
1940	Clemson	12–2–2
1946	Clemson	12–5
1947	Clemson	24–5	13–2	1st	NCAA Eastern Playoff
Total:		58–19–2

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Claude Randolph Hinson Sr. Army Colonel, Coach". The Washington Post. June 9, 2006. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
^ Blackman, Sam; Bradley, Bob; Kriese, Chuck; Vandervort, Will (2013). Clemson: Where the Tigers Play. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-61321-356-8.

[WaPo-1] "Claude Randolph Hinson Sr. Army Colonel, Coach". The Washington Post. June 9, 2006. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2023.

[2] Blackman, Sam; Bradley, Bob; Kriese, Chuck; Vandervort, Will (2013). Clemson: Where the Tigers Play. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-61321-356-8.

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