ACS holds Tee It Up Fore Life tournament

The American Cancer Society’s Tee It Up Fore Life golf tournament was held on June 11 at Old Overton Club.

This year’s Tee It Up Fore Life honoree was football icon Pat Sullivan. An All-American quarterback for the Auburn Tigers, Sullivan won the Heisman Trophy in 1971 and then played six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Atlanta Falcons & Washington Redskins.

Sullivan was a head football coach at Samford University, a position he held from 2007 to 2014. He was previously the head football coach at Texas Christian University (TCU) from 1992 to 1997 and the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) from 1999 to 2006. Sullivan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1991.

Submitted by American Cancer Society South Region