Sam Neal Winningham (October 11, 1926 – April 19, 2024) was an American football coach and player.
[1] He played college football at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was a quarterback.
Winningham was the head football coach at Bent County High School in Las Animas, Colorado from 1950 to 1952 and Phoenix Union High School in Phoenix Arizona from 1953 to 1959, amassing a career high school football coaching record of 58–35–3.
He served as the head football coach at San Fernando Valley State College — now known as California State University, Northridge — from 1962 to 1968, compiling a record of 21–42–1.
[5] In November 2017, aged 91, he attended a ceremony at CSUN dedicating a plaza in his honor.