Head Coach - Football - Basketball - Track & Field - Baseball - Cross Country - Golf

Years Active: 1949 to 1974

Football: 19 years

Basketball: 14 years

Baseball: 10 years

Track & Field: 10 years

Cross Country: 5 years

Golf: 3 years

Athletic Director: 25 years

Awards: Illinois Football Coaches Association: Hall of Fame

Unity High School Athletic Hall of Fame: 2006

Records - Football: 112-52 ---- Basketball: 203-132

Oscar Hicks spent 35 years as a teacher, coach, and principal in the Unit #7 School District, Tolono, IL.  Six of those years he served as a teacher and coach at East Unity Junior High School, Sidney, IL, and was a coach, teacher, and principal for 29 years at Unity High School, Tolono, IL. 

At Unity High School, he was head football coach for 19 years, head basketball coach for 14 years, head track coach for 11 years, head baseball coach for 10 years, and cross-country coach for 8 years.  In addition, he served as Athletic Director for 26 years.  After retirement, he coached Unity Jr. High School girls’ basketball for 2 years. Oscar served as President of the Okaw Valley Coaches for 18 years and a member of the Okaw Valley Boys Football and Basketball Coaches Association for 29 years.  He was inducted into the Illinois High School Football Hall of Fame in 1979, and the Unity High School football field was dedicated as Hicks Field in his honor the same year.