A. B. Morrison Jr.

A. B. Morrison Jr.
Biographical details
Morrison pictured in the 1901 Class Book, Cornell University
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Born	(1878-06-04)June 4, 1878 Geneva, New York
Died	June 1967 (aged 88–89) Dade County, Florida
Playing career
Football
?	Hobart
1898–1900	Cornell
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1901	VPI
1902	Cornell (assistant)
Baseball
1900–1901	VPI
Head coaching record
Overall	6–1 (football)

Archibald Bostwick Morrison Jr. (June 4, 1878 – June 1967) was an American football and basketball player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI)—now known as Virginia Tech—for one season in 1901, compiling a record of 6–1.^[1]

Playing career

Before coaching, Morrison played halfback as an undergraduate at Cornell University for three seasons^[2] and also captained the basketball team in his senior year.

Coaching career

VPI

The 1901 season was the most successful season for the program up to that time,^[3] and would continue to hold that mark until 1909 under head coach Branch Bocock, who tied that mark that year and later would improve the season win/loss percentage in the 1913 season.^[4] The season included victories over Clemson and Georgetown.^[5] The team's only defeat came from Virginia on October 26, 1901 by a score of 0-16. This was the only game of the season that the Hokies did not score.^[6]

Assistant coaching

After coaching at Virginia Tech for one year, he returned to Cornell as an assistant coach in 1902.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall
VPI (Independent) (1901)
1901	VPI	6–1
VPI:		6–1
Total:		6–1

References

↑ Virginia Tech Hokies 2009 Football Media Guide
↑ Cornell Alumni News Archived June 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. "The Alumni" March 13, 1901
↑ College Football Data Warehouse Virginia Tech Hokies head coaching recores
↑ College Football Data Warehouse Branch Bockock year-by-year records
↑ Hokie Sports 1901 Football season
↑ College Football Data Warehouse Dr. A.B. Morrison Jr. 1901 season results

External links

A. B. Morrison Jr. at the College Football Data Warehouse

Virginia Tech Hokies head football coaches

E. A. Smyth (1892–1893)
Joseph Massie (1894)
Arlie C. Jones (1895–1896)
Charles Firth (1897)
J. Lewis Ingles (1898)
James Morrison (1899)
Eugene Davis (1900)
A. B. Morrison Jr. (1901)
R. R. Brown (1902)
Charles Augustus Lueder (1903)
John C. O'Connor (1904)
Sally Miles (1905–1906)
Bob Williams (1907)
R. M. Brown (1908)
Branch Bocock (1909–1910)
L. W. Riess (1911)
Branch Bocock (1912–1915)
Jack E. Ingersoll (1916)
Charles A. Bernier (1917–1919)
Stanley Sutton (1920)
B. C. Cubbage (1921–1925)
Andy Gustafson (1926–1929)
Orville Neale (1930–1931)
Henry Redd (1932–1940)
James Kitts (1941)
Herbert McEver & Sumner D. Tilson (1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Herbert McEver (1945)
James Kitts (1946–1947)
Robert McNeish (1948–1950)
Frank Moseley (1951–1960)
Jerry Claiborne (1961–1970)
Charlie Coffey (1971–1973)
Jimmy Sharpe (1974–1977)
Bill Dooley (1978–1986)
Frank Beamer (1987–2015)
Justin Fuente (2016– )

Virginia Tech Hokies head baseball coaches

Unknown (1892–1893)
No team (1894)
James M. McJames (1895)
Unknown (1896)
Lipep (1897)
Unknown (1898)
No team (1899)
A. B. Morrison Jr. (1900–1901)
Unknown (1902)
Albert L. Orth (1903)
R. R. Brown (1904)
Knox (1905)
S. S. Eckerstone (1906–1907)
Sally Miles (1908)
R. M. Brown (1909)
Branch Bocock (1910–1911)
L. W. Riess (1912)
Sally Miles (1913)
Branch Bocock (1914)
R. B. Prince (1915)
Bill Breitenstein (1916–1917)
Charles Bernier (1918–1920)
William L. Younger (1921–1923)
George Kircher (1924–1932)
Herbert McEver (1933–1939)
Flake Laird (1940–1944)
George S. Proctor (1945–1947)
Flake Laird (1948–1973)
Bob Humphreys (1974–1978)
Chuck Hartman (1979–2006)
Pete Hughes (2007–2013)
Pat Mason (2014– )

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