| Adolph Hamblin | |
| Birth Date: | 1896 |
| Birth Place: | Galesburg, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | South Charleston, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Knox College |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1921–1944 |
| Coach Team2: | West Virginia State |
| Championships: | 1 black college national (1936) |
Adolph Putnam "Ziggy" Hamblin (1896 – August 17, 1966) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.
A native of Galesburg, Illinois, Hamblin attended Knox College in that city. He received 16 varsity letters at Knox, competing in football, basketball, baseball, and track.[1]
He served as the head football coach at West Virginia State College from 1921 to 1944.[2] He led the 1936 West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football team to the black college football national championship. He also coached the basketball and baseball teams and was a professor of biology for 45 years.[1] [3]
In 1987, Hamblin was posthumously inducted into the Knox-Lombard Athletic Hall of Fame. In addition, the science building at West Virginia State was named for him.[1]