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Glen Yancey is a native of Savannah, Tennessee. He graduated from Central High School in Savannah in 1943 and served in the armed forces from 1943-1945. During that time he spent 21 months in combat in the European Theater. He was awarded the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster for being wounded in combat twice. When he returned to the states he attended Union and graduated in 1949. While at Union he played football, basketball and tennis.

Glen began his coaching career at Howard College (now Stamford University) in Birmingham, Alabama. After one season at Howard he took the Head Football and Basketball Coach position at Cordele Georgia. His 1951 Cordele team went 13-0 and won the Georgia State Football Championship and Glen was named Georgia Coach of the Year.

Glen then moved to Vigor High School in Prichard, Alabama for twelve seasons as Head Football Coach and Athletic Director. His 1960 team went 10-0 and won the State High School Football Championship and he was named Alabama Coach of the Year. He was also selected to coach the Alabama All-Star game in Tuscaloosa.

He went on to coach at four other Mobile, Alabama area high schools and retired in 1992. During his outstanding career as a coach he had 109 players sign athletic scholarships. He produced nine high school football All-Americans. Four of those were quarterbacks including future University of Alabama and NFL standouts Scott Hunter and Richard Todd.

In 2006 Glen was inducted into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame and in 2007 he was inducted into the Prichard Sports Hall of Fame. He was nominated this year for the Alabama State Hall of Fame. He is married to the former Betty Ann Lawler of Birmingham and they have four sons.