Fred Sington


Frederic William Sington was an American football and baseball player. Sington was also an accomplished saxophonist. Sington was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and was Jewish.
He attended Phillips High School.

College football

Sington was a prominent two-time All America tackle for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams. While in college he was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, Psi chapter at the University of Alabama. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. Sington was chosen for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1920–1969 era.

1930

In 1930, a year in which Alabama won the national championship and Sington was an All-American, Rudy Vallée wrote a song about Sington, entitled "Football Freddie", that would go on to become a nationwide hit.

Baseball

In 1932 he led the Middle Atlantic League with a batting average of.368 and a slugging percentage of.720, and in triples with 12 and home runs with 29. In 1936 he was third in the Southern Association with a batting average of.384 and a slugging percentage of.589, as he led the league with 22 triples.
He would also play professional baseball as an outfielder with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Washington Senators, batting.271/.382/.401.

Death and burial

He is buried in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery.