They are honoring a legend at B.C. Rain High School. The school’s new football stadium will be named after Mr. Ben Glover -- a man who needs no introduction on the Parkway. FOX 10′s Lee Peck caught up with Mr. Glover about the honor and his four decades at B.C. Rain.
) - Long before the stadium was ever built -- Ben Glover recalls the phone call in 1964 from B.C. Rain’s principal about becoming the school’s next head football coach.
“One thing that was fascinating to me was being the principal of students that I had coached their daddy. That was interesting to me,” said Glover. “I believe my last year there were five cheerleaders -- where I had coached their dads.”“He was a very hands on principal,” said Rusty Glover, son. “I can recall my brother and my wake up call being the phone ringing with teachers calling the house between 5 and 5:30 in the morning -- saying they’d be absent.
“He wanted you to do things right -- matter of fact he demanded you do things right. Always there for you. Always there for you,” said Ed Lathan. Glover would later help hire Lathan as head football coach for B.C. Rain. Lathan too eventually working his way up to administrator -- learning a lot from Glover.
“When I would leave here in the mornings... going from here to Mobile College -- when I would meet those school buses -- I’d nearly cry -- I’d have tears in my eyes... Because I missed it. I did miss it,” explained Glover.
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