Alexander Brown Mackie
Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Gazam, Pennsylvania[1] | May 1, 1894
Died |
June 5, 1966 72) Salina, Kansas | (aged
Playing career | |
Football | |
1913 | Dickinson Seminary |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1921–1937 | Kansas Wesleyan |
Basketball | |
1921–1938 | Kansas Wesleyan |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
73–40–13 (football) 113–161 (basketball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 6 KCAC (1927, 1929, 1931, 1934–1936) |
Alexander Brown Mackie (May 1, 1894 – June 5, 1966) was an American college professor, business college founder, and college sports coach.
Academic contributions
Mackie was the co-founder of Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kansas. He and Perry E. Brown founded the school as a business college, taking what was a part of the Kansas Wesleyan school of business.[2] The school operates today with campuses in many locations across the United States.
Before moving to Salina and Kansas Wesleyan, Mackie was a student at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.[3]
Athletics
Playing career
Mackie played football for Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the 1913 season.[4]
Coaching career
Mackie was the ninth head football coach for Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas, serving for 17 seasons, from 1921 to 1937, compiling a record of 73–40–1. [5]
Mackie's 1922 team was considered having "no great strengths" by football legend Walter Camp.[6] As he spent more time with the program, his teams encountered more success. Mackie's teams won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship five times during his tenure.[7] Midway through the 1931 season, his team was one of the few undefeated teams in the country.[8]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Independent) (1921–1923) | |||||||||
1921 | Kansas Wesleyan | 0–3 | |||||||
1922 | Kansas Wesleyan | 0–3 | |||||||
1923 | Kansas Wesleyan | 1–1–1 | |||||||
Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1924–1937) | |||||||||
1924 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–3 | |||||||
1925 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–2–1 | |||||||
1926 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–4 | |||||||
1927 | Kansas Wesleyan | 7–0–1 | |||||||
1928 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–2–2 | |||||||
1929 | Kansas Wesleyan | 6–0–2 | |||||||
1930 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–3–2 | |||||||
1931 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–1–2 | |||||||
1932 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–3 | |||||||
1933 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–4 | |||||||
1934 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–4 | |||||||
1935 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–3–1 | |||||||
1936 | Kansas Wesleyan | 7–1–1 | |||||||
1937 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–3–1 | |||||||
Kansas Wesleyan: | 72–40–14 | ||||||||
Total: | 72–40–14 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
- ↑ Jones, J.J. (2013). What It Meant to be a Coyote Book II. Xlibris Corporation. p. 13. ISBN 9781479771806. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- ↑ Brown Mackie College history
- ↑ Seventy-Second Catalogue of Ohio Wesleyan University 1916
- ↑ The Dickinson Union October 1913
- ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Archived October 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes coaching records
- ↑ The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by Walter Camp) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922
- ↑ Kansas Wesleyan University Archived 2006-09-03 at the Wayback Machine. Football media guide
- ↑ The Evening Independent "Only Five Teams Undefeated and Untied" November 30, 1931