Andy Hinson

{{Short description|American-football player (1930–2025)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Andy Hinson | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|9|6}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|10|24|1930|9|6}} | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | alma_mater = Bethune–Cookman (1953) | player_years1 = 1949–1952 | player_team1 = Bethune–Cookman | player_positions = | coach_years1 = 1956–1971 | coach_team1 = Hastings HS (FL) | coach_years2 = 1972–1975 | coach_team2 = Camden HS (NJ) | coach_years3 = 1976–1978 | coach_team3 = Bethune–Cookman | coach_years4 = 1979–1984 | coach_team4 = Cheyney | overall_record = 46–47–2 (college football) 154–31–5 (high school football) | bowl_record = | tournament_record = 0–1 (NCAA D-II playoffs) | championships = 1 SIAC Division I (1976) 1 PSAC Eastern Division (1979) | awards = Little College All–American (1952) | coaching_records = }}

'''Andrew Walter Hinson''' (September 6, 1930 – October 24, 2025) was an American football coach and player. He was a collegiate head coach for the Bethune–Cookman Wildcats from 1976 to 1978<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/03/archives/hinson-named-coach.html|title=Hinson Named Coach|work=New York Times|date=January 3, 1976|access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> and the Cheyney Wolves from 1979 to 1984.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vkIDAAAAMBAJ&q=andy+hinson%2C+football+coach&pg=PA50|title=Andy Hinson Leaves B-C for Cheyney State|work=Jet|date=September 6, 1979|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref>

Hinson grew up in Camden, New Jersey, and graduated from Camden High School in 1949 and coached football there for three seasons, earning recognition in 1973 as scholastic football coach of the year.<ref>via Associated Press. [https://newspaperarchive.com/hanover-evening-sun-aug-03-1979-p-19/ "Cheyney Selects New Grid Coach"], ''Hanover Evening Sun'', August 3, 1979. Accessed January 21, 2018. "Andy Hinson, former Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coach of the year, has been named head football coach at Cheyney State College, a spokesman announced today.... The 1949 graduate of Camden, N.J., High School, was New Jersey scholastic football coach of the year following his first of three seasons there in 1973."</ref>

A graduate of Bethune–Cookman University, Hinson was named to the Little All–American team in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bcuathletics.com/news/2013/7/4/throwback_thursday_andy_hinson.aspx?path=football|title=Throwback Thursday: Andy Hinson|publisher=bcuathletcis.com|date=July 4, 2013|access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref>

Hinson died in Philadelphia on October 24, 2025, at the age of 95.<ref>[https://eu.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/college/football/2025/10/29/bethune-cookman-football-coach-andy-hinson-death/86943525007/ Bethune-Cookman football legend Andy Hinson dies at 95]</ref><ref>[https://www.debaptiste.com/obituary/andrew-hinson Andrew Walter Hinson of West Chester, Pennsylvania]</ref>

==Head coaching record== ===College=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Bethune–Cookman Wildcats | conf = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | startyear = 1976 | endyear = 1978 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = division | year = 1976 | name = Bethune–Cookman | overall = 8–3 | conference = 4–1 | confstanding = 1st (Division I) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1977 | name = Bethune–Cookman | overall = 8–4 | conference = 4–1 | confstanding = 2nd (Division I) | bowlname = NCAA Division II First Round | bowloutcome = L | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1978 | name = Bethune–Cookman | overall = 7–3–1 | conference = 3–2 | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Bethune–Cookman | overall = 23–10–1 | confrecord = 12–4 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Cheyney Wolves | conf = Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference | startyear = 1979 | endyear = 1984 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = division | year = 1979 | name = Cheyney | overall = 9–2 | conference = 4–1 | confstanding = 1st (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1980 | name = Cheyney | overall = 4–5–1 | conference = 1–4 | confstanding = T–4th (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1981 | name = Cheyney | overall = 2–8 | conference = 1–4 | confstanding = 5th (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1982 | name = Cheyney | overall = 2–8 | conference = 1–5 | confstanding = 7th (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1983 | name = Cheyney | overall = 3–7 | conference = 1–5 | confstanding = 7th (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1984 | name = Cheyney | overall = 3–7 | conference = 1–5 | confstanding = 6th (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Cheyney | overall = 23–37–1 | confrecord = 9–24 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 46–47–2 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = }}

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