Frank Gorton
 Gorton pictured in The Bomb 1915, VMI yearbook | |
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball, track and field |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | c. 1876 |
| Died |
March 20, 1939 (aged 62) Lexington, Virginia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1906–1907 | Rutgers |
| 1908–1910 | Occidental |
| 1914–1916 | VMI |
| 1917 | Otterbein |
| 1925, 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 |
37–23–6 (football) 34–30 (basketball) |
Frank H. Gorton (c. 1876 – 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, and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1914 to 1916, compiling a career college football record of 37–23–6. 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 died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in Lexington, Virginia on March 20, 1939.[1]
Gorton had returned for a brief time to serve as the director of athletics at Virginia Military Institute.[2]
Gorton served for one season as the head coach at Otterbein University (then known as Otterbein College) in 1917.[3]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Queensmen (Independent) (1906–1907) | |||||||||
| 1906 | Rutgers | 5–2–2 | |||||||
| 1907 | Rutgers | 3–5–1 | |||||||
| Rutgers: | 8–7–3 | ||||||||
| Occidental Tigers (Independent) (1908–1910) | |||||||||
| 1908 | Occidental | 9–2 | |||||||
| 1909 | Occidental | 4–1–1 | |||||||
| 1910 | Occidental | 2–2–1 | |||||||
| Occidental: | 15–5–2 | ||||||||
| VMI Keydets (Independent) (1914–1916) | |||||||||
| 1914 | VMI | 4–4 | |||||||
| 1915 | VMI | 6–2–1 | |||||||
| 1916 | VMI | 4–5 | |||||||
| VMI: | 14–11–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 37–23–6 | ||||||||
Basketball
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Queensmen (Independent) (1906–1907) | |||||||||
| 1906–07 | Rutgers | 0–3 | |||||||
| 1907–08 | Rutgers | 4–11 | |||||||
| Rutgers: | 4–14 | ||||||||
| VMI Keydets (Independent) (1914–1917) | |||||||||
| 1914–15 | VMI | 8–2 | |||||||
| 1915–16 | VMI | 9–3 | |||||||
| 1916–17 | VMI | 9–5 | |||||||
| VMI: | 26–10 | ||||||||
| Otterbein Cardinals (Independent) (1917–1918) | |||||||||
| 1917–18 | Otterbein | 4–6 | |||||||
| Otterbein: | 4–6 | ||||||||
| Total: | 34–30 | ||||||||
References
- ↑ "FRANK H. GORTON" (PDF). The New York Times. Associated Press. March 21, 1939. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
- ↑ The Bomb. VMI. 1927. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
- ↑ "College Lose Many Players". The Evening Review. East Liverpool, Ohio. September 26, 1917. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
- ↑ 2013–14 VMI Basketball Fact Book
- ↑ 2013–14 Otterbein Basketball Media Guide