Jenks Gillem

Jenks Gillem
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	c. 1890
Died	November 11, 1951
Place of death	Gadsden, Alabama
Playing career
1911–1912	Sewannee
Position(s)	End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1925–1926 1928–1939 1940–1941	Howard (AL) Birmingham–Southern Sewannee
Head coaching record
Overall	71–65–10
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 Dixie (1934, 1937)

Jennings F. "Sam" "Jenks" Gillem (c. 1890 – November 11, 1951) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Howard College—now Samford University (1925–1926), Birmingham–Southern College (1928–1939), and Sewanee: The University of the South (1940–1941), compiling a career college football record of 71–65–10. Gillem died on November 11, 1951 at a hospital in Gadsden, Alabama after a long illness.^[1]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Standing
Howard Bulldogs (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1924–1926)
1924	Howard	3–5–1
1925	Howard	6–3
1926	Howard	4–4–1
Howard:		13–12–2
Birmingham–Southern Panthers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1928–1931)
1928	Birmingham–Southern	3–2–4
1929	Birmingham–Southern	4–4
1930	Birmingham–Southern	5–4
1931	Birmingham–Southern	3–4
Birmingham–Southern Panthers (Dixie Conference) (1932–1938)
1932	Birmingham–Southern	5–3
1933	Birmingham–Southern	3–3–3
1934	Birmingham–Southern	9–0	1st
1935	Birmingham–Southern	2–6
1936	Birmingham–Southern	4–5
1937	Birmingham–Southern	6–2	1st
1938	Birmingham–Southern	4–5
1939	Birmingham–Southern	3–5–1
Birmingham–Southern:		51–43–8
Sewanee Tigers (NCAA College Division Independent) (1940–1941)
1940	Sewanee	3–5
1941	Sewanee	2–5
Sewanee:		5–10
Total:		71–65–10
National championship Conference title Conference division title

Birmingham–Southern Panthers head football coaches

Baby Haynes (1918) Charles H. Brown (1919–1923) Harold Drew (1924–1927) Jenks Gillem (1928–1939) No team (1940–2006) Joey Jones (2007) Eddie Garfinkle (2008–)