Thompson Mutt Reynolds graduated from Phillips high school in Birmingham in 1938. During his college days at Auburn he acted as assistant trainer to the athletic teams. He went to Ramsay in 1943 where he served as an assistant football and baseball coach.

Reynolds entered the military in 1944 and saw action as a machine gunner in the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland and Central Germany before being discharged in 1945. He returned to Ramsay where he served as and assistant football, basketball and track coach.

Reynolds spent more than 40 years in education, including 28 as the head football coach at Ramsay in Birmingham from 1953-70. During that tenure his teams won 10 of the 15 Crippled Childrens Classic games they played in at Legion Field.

In 1970 he became the first athletic director at Vestavia Hills High School where he hired and developed a staff that has become recognized as one of the best in the state.

Reynolds, who was inducted into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame in its second class (1992), was named by Birminghams Monday Morning Quarterback Club as Coach of the Year in 1959 and 1963.

He served as secretary, vice-president and president of the AHSAA Fifth District Athletic Board and as president of the AHSAA Central Board of Control. In 1982 Reynolds retired and the Vestavia High football stadium was dedicated and renamed in his honor.

Former Ramsay players have endowed the Thompson C. Reynolds Scholarship Fund at his alma mater, Samford University.

Reynolds spent many summers helping to mold young boys by taking them on camping outings in the wilderness of Minnesota. Coach Reynolds died Sunday, March 28, after an extended illness at the age of 89.