Hal McAfee

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Hal McAfee

Sport Football
Career highlights
Overall 36–18
Championships
1989, 1990 TIAA championships
Awards
1976 Cotton Bowl Defensive MVP
Playing career
1973-1975 Arkansas
Position Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979-1980
1981-1982
1983-1985
1986-1987
1988-1992
1996-1998
Arkansas (GA)
Marlin HS (DC)
Harmony Grove HS
Tarleton State (DC)
Tarleton State
Fort Lewis College (OC)

Hal McAfee is a former American football coach. He served as head coach at Tarleton State University from 1988-92. McAfee compiled a 36–18 overall record, including a 11–1 season in 1990, the first ever undefeated regular season in school history.

McAfee was an All-Southwest Conference linebacker at the University of Arkansas. He helped the Razorbacks to a 31-10 win over Georgia in the 1976 Cotton Bowl, earning him the game's Defensive Most Valuable Player award. McAfee would eventually be named to the Cotton Bowl Hall of Heroes for the 1970s and the Houston Chronicle All-Time Cotton Bowl team.

He started his coaching career as a defensive graduate assistant at his alma mater before moving on to the high school level. He became defensive coordinator at the high school in Marlin, Texas, before moving on to his first head coaching job at Harmony Grove High School in Camden, Arkansas.

Returning to the collegiate level in 1986, McAfee was hired as defensive coordinator by Bill Pringle at Tarleton State University. The Texans won consecutive TIAA championships in 1986 and 1987, finishing seasons 9–1–1 and 9–3, respectively.

In 1988, McAfee succeeded Pringle as head coach at Tarleton State and spent the next five years leading the team. TSU won two TIAA championships (1989 & 1990) and made it to the NAIA II National Quarterfinals twice (1989 & 1990) in those five years.