Savannah State names Pettiford head football coach

SAVANNAH - Savannah State University president Carlton E. Brown named former N-F-L player Ken Pettiford today as the new head football coach for the Tigers. <br> <br> Pettiford, who was head coach at Alabama A-and-M from 1994 until 1998, replaces Bill Davis, who died in March. <br> <br> The 1973 Tennessee State graduate played for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1975 and the San Francisco 49ers in 1976. After a series of assistant coaching positions at his alma mater and other schools in Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi, Pettiford took his first head coach job at Mississippi Valley State in 1987. <br> <br> He had a second stint as offensive coordinator at Albany State from 1991-94 and since 1998 has been head coach at Maplewood High School in Nashville, Tennessee. <br> <br>