Cecil W. Ingram, formerly the Florida State...

Cecil W. Ingram, formerly the Florida State athletic director, was named athletic director at Alabama.

He signed a five-year contract with a base salary of $105,000.

He succeeds Steve Sloan, who resigned Aug. 15 under pressure from the school president, Roger Sayers, who said that he and Sloan had differences over management style.

“I don’t think Alabama people want to tolerate divisiveness,” said Ingram, a native of Tuscaloosa who played football and baseball at the school in the early 1950s. “I’m going to do all I can to get everybody together--if they’re not together already.”