Frank Gorton | |
Birth Date: | 1877 |
Death Date: | (aged 62) |
Death Place: | Lexington, Virginia, U.S. |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1906–1907 |
Coach Team2: | Rutgers |
Coach Years3: | 1908–1910 |
Coach Team3: | Occidental |
Coach Years4: | 1914–1916 |
Coach Team4: | VMI |
Coach Years5: | 1917 |
Coach Team5: | Otterbein |
Coach Years6: | 1918 |
Coach Team6: | Fisk |
Coach Years7: | 1925 |
Coach Team7: | Rochester (NY) (assistant) |
Coach Years8: | 1934 |
Coach Team8: | Rochester (NY) (assistant) |
Coach Sport9: | Basketball |
Coach Years10: | 1906–1908 |
Coach Team10: | Rutgers |
Coach Years11: | 1914–1917 |
Coach Team11: | VMI |
Coach Years12: | 1917–1918 |
Coach Team12: | Otterbein |
Coach Sport13: | Baseball |
Coach Years14: | 1907 |
Coach Team14: | Rutgers |
Coach Years15: | 1915–1917 |
Coach Team15: | VMI |
Coach Years16: | 1939 |
Coach Team16: | Ohio State (assistant trainer) |
Coach Sport17: | Track |
Coach Years18: | 1915–1917 |
Coach Team18: | VMI |
Coach Years19: | 1926–1937 |
Coach Team19: | Rochester |
Admin Years1: | 1926–1928 |
Admin Team1: | VMI |
Overall Record: | 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]