Fred Sington

Frederic William Sington (February 24, 1910 – August 20, 1998) 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 a unanimous 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 with 7 home runs and 85 RBI in 181 games.

Death and burial
He is buried in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery.