By Rubin E. Grant As he embarks on his 41st season as Vestavia Hills’ head football coach, Buddy Anderson remembers his first season as if it unfolded yesterday. In 1978, Anderson was elevated to the head job after spending six seasons as a Rebels assistant. Vestavia Hills reached the 1978 Class 4A championship game – the highest classification level then – but lost 21-7 to … [Read more...]
Vestavia Hills Coach Buddy Anderson Inducted into National Hall of Fame
Vestavia Hills High football coach Buddy Anderson, the winningest high school football coach in Alabama, was inducted into the National Federation of State High School Association Hall of Fame on July 2 during a banquet in Chicago. Anderson, who is beginning his 41st season as head football coach at Vestavia Hills in August, was among 22 enshrined in the National Hall of Fame … [Read more...]
The Forty Year Plan: Vestavia’s Buddy Anderson Reflects on the Past But Looks to the Future
By Blake Ells Buddy Anderson still remembers the night his life’s path became clear to him. It was Jan. 12, 1968, and he was sitting in his father’s old pickup that he had driven to play in a high school basketball game. “It wasn’t completely overcast, but there were clouds,” he recalls, as if the date nearly 50 years ago were yesterday. “I had been struggling with … [Read more...]