Career
He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama in 1897. McCants was also a player for Alabama"s inaugural football team in 1892. Due to a ban the university had placed on athletic teams traveling off campus, McCants" 1897 team only played one game, a 6–0 victory over the Tuscaloosa Athletic Club.
As a further result of the ban, Alabama did not field a team in 1898.
When the ban was lifted and football was resumed in 1899, West. A. Martin was named as the new head coach.
