Coach David Lee Herbert was a famed football coach at Tishomingo High. A native of Carrollton, Coach Herbert was head coach at Tishomingo from 1983 to 1988 and compiled a record of 28 wins and 31 losses with three district titles and three Class 1A playoff appearances. David was stricken with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, during his coaching career and retired from teaching and coaching after 1988. In 1988, Tishomingo was playing at Falkner with a berth in the playoffs on the line. Coach Herbert, who had to coach from a wheelchair in a flatbed pick-up truck pulled up to the sidelines, had his team ahead 16 to 14 with 7 seconds left with the football at the Falkner 35 yard-line. Tishomingo had to win the game by four points to make the playoffs, so Herbert called time and told his quarterback son David to pitch the ball to their fastest player, Shane Hill, who would race the wrong way for a safety to tie the game at 16-16. Tishomingo players balked and the team took two delay of game penalties before the play resulted in a 65-yard wrong-way safety forcing overtime. In overtime, Coach Herbert’s team scored a touchdown to win 22 to 16 to advance to the playoffs. The play made David famous and he was featured on CBS’ NFL Today with Brent Musburger, ABC, NBC, and the Paul Harvey national radio program. David’s life and coaching career is memorialized in a 2019 book entitled Playing for Overtime—The David Lee Herbert Story written by Al Ainsworth with a foreword by Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame member and storied writer Rick Cleveland. In addition to MAC honors, Coach Herbert was inducted into the Northeast Mississippi Football Association Hall of Fame in 2020. Coach Herbert passed away on July 16, 2005.