When you grow up as the only girl in a family of six children, all of your brothers are football stars, your father is a football coach, and your mother is known as the “First Lady of Football,” it is pretty much taken for granted that you’re going to be a huge football fan! For Shirley Ann Majors, being the only daughter in the legendary Majors family was just fine. Like her siblings, Shirley Ann speaks highly of her parents. She describes her father, the great Coach Shirley Majors, who led Sewanee squads for twenty-one years, as being very nurturing to his children. And her mother, Elizabeth, was full of energy, “like a piece of dynamite.” A fine athlete herself, Shirley Ann played basketball and was a cheerleader at Huntland High School in Franklin County, where she was also homecoming queen her senior year. She then headed off to the Majors’ home-away-from-home, UT, where she majored in home economics. Football being a constant in her life, Shirley Ann eventually married UT football player and brother Bill’s roommate, Tom Husband. Currently living in Chattanooga, Shirley Ann is the mother of two and is active in her community through volunteer work and her church. She is a fine needle artist and seamstress, a talent she inherited from her mother. And it should come as no surprise that Shirley Ann is an avid tennis player as well. After all, if you’re a Majors, sports is in your genes!
