James Morrison | |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1871 |
Birth Place: | Lexington, Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Virginia (1898)[1] |
Player Years1: | 1897 |
Player Team1: | Virginia |
Coach Years1: | 1898 |
Coach Team1: | Add-Ran Christian |
Coach Years2: | 1899 |
Coach Team2: | VPI |
Overall Record: | 5–4–1 |
James Morrison (November 2, 1871 – May 15, 1939)[2] was an American college football player, coach, and physician. He served as the head football coach at Add-Ran Christian University—now known as Texas Christian University (TCU)—in 1898 and at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI)—now known as Virginia Tech—in 1899, compiling a career college football record of 5–4–1. Morrison graduated from the University of Virginia with a medical degree in 1898.[3] He was later a pioneering otolaryngologist specialist in the south.