Tony Lunceford graduated from Northside High School in Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama.

His first head coaching experience came at Fultondale in 1976. He remained with the program for the next six seasons before stepping down.

In 1990, Lunceford accepted the head coaching position at Mortimer Jordan High School in Birmingham. Following the 1992 season, Lunceford resigned and returned to Minor, where he had been an assistant coach before taking the Mortimer Jordan job.

Minors head football coach, Alan Pridmore moved to Hueytown in 1998 and assistant Tony Lunceford took over at Minor High School. Over the next nine years, Lunceford had a 68-36 record and finished 6-6 in his last year with the program.

In the spring of 2007, Minor football coach Tony Lunceford retired. Lunceford, a coach for the better part of 41 1/2 years, the last nine at Minor, decided it was time to step down as coach and athletic director at the Jefferson County high school in Adamsville.

Coach Lunceford was honored in 2011 when the football field at Minor was named in his honor. His overall football record is 100-90 in eighteen seasons as a head football coach in Alabama.