Hall of Fame
Harold Steelman was an assistant football coach on Jimmy “Red” Parker’s staff at UAM (then Arkansas A&M) from 1962 to 1965 and served three seasons as head baseball coach. Steelman is best known in Arkansas sporting circles as a member of the University of Arkansas’ “25 Little Pigs” who captured the 1954 Southwest Conference football championship.
Steelman lettered for the Razorbacks as a lineman in 1954 and 1955 before beginning his coaching career at Arkansas High School in Texarkana. Steelman followed Parker to The Citadel and served as an assistant there as well as at Louisiana-Monroe. Steelman was head coach at Arkansas Tech from 1980 to 1985 and managed War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock for 13 years before retiring in 1999.
During Steelman’s coaching tenure at UAM, the Boll Weevils won conference football championships in 1963 and 1965 and back-to-back league baseball titles in 1963-64.
