American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach
Frank Gorton
Gorton pictured in The Bomb 1915, VMI yearbook
Biographical details
Born
1877
Died
(1939-03-20)March 20, 1939 (aged 62) Lexington, Virginia, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1906–1907
Rutgers
1908–1910
Occidental
1914–1916
VMI
1917
Otterbein
1918
Fisk
1925
Rochester (NY) (assistant)
1934
Rochester (NY) (assistant)
Basketball
1906–1908
Rutgers
1914–1917
VMI
1917–1918
Otterbein
Baseball
1907
Rutgers
1915–1917
VMI
1939
Ohio State (assistant trainer)
Track
1915–1917
VMI
1926–1937
Rochester
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1926–1928
VMI
Head coaching record
Overall
38–29–6 (football) 34–30 (basketball)
Frank H. Gorton (1877 – March 20, 1939) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Rutgers University from 1906 to 1907, Occidental College from 1908 to 1910, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1914 to 1916, and Otterbein College—now known as Otterbein University—in 1917, compiling a career college football record of 38–29–6.[1] Gorton was also the head basketball coach at Rutgers from 1906 to 1909, at VMI from 1914 to 1917, and at Otterbein College during the 1917–18 season, amassing a career college basketball mark of 33–31. In addition, he served as the head baseball coach at Rutgers in 1907. Gorton returned to VMI in 1926 to serve as the school's athletic director.[2]
Gorton died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in Lexington, Virginia on March 20, 1939.[3]
^"College Lose Many Players". The Evening Review. East Liverpool, Ohio. September 26, 1917. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
^The Bomb. VMI. 1927. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
^"Frank H. Gorton" (PDF). The New York Times. Associated Press. March 21, 1939. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
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