Lindy Hood

{{Short description|American basketball player (1907–1972)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Lindy Hood

| image = Lindy Hood, circa 1929 (cropped).jpg

| position = Center

| number =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 5

| weight_lb =

| birth_date = {{Birth-date|July 30, 1907}}

| birth_place = Leesburg, Alabama

| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|10|17|1907|07|30}}

| death_place = Pierceton, Indiana

| nationality = American

| highschool = Collinsville (Collinsville, Alabama)

| college = Alabama (1929–1931)

| career_start =

| career_end =

| highlights =

• First-team All-American – College Humor (1931)

}}

James Marcus "Lindy" Hood (July 30, 1907 – October 17, 1972) was a college basketball All-American center for the University of Alabama. At Alabama, Hood is noted for being their first All-American men's basketball player in 1931 and as the leader of the undefeated 1929–30 Crimson Tide squad.{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Welch |title=Alabama has sustained its basketball tradition |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=niodAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QaUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6769%2C2247900 |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |date=January 11, 1981 |page=8 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}{{cite news |title=Alabama Sports Hall of Fame profile – Lindy Hood |url=http://ashof.org/index.php?submenu=basketball&src=directory&view=company&srctype=detail&refno=227&category=Basketball |publisher=ASHOF.org |accessdate=March 8, 2014}} Hood's nickname "Lindy" came during his playing days with Alabama during a trip to New Orleans to play Tulane. As he entered a hotel lobby, a crowd mistook Hood for Charles Lindbergh and thus the nickname "Lindy" was given to him.{{cite news |title=DeKalb County Sports Hall of Fame profile – Lindy Hood |url=http://dekalbsportshalloffame.rainsvillealabama.com/1998.html |accessdate=March 8, 2014}} Hood was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.