| D. V. Graves | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1886 |
| Died | January 16, 1960 (aged 73) |
| Place of death | Seattle, Washington |
| Playing career | |
| Football 1906–1908 |
Missouri |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football 1911–1914 1915–1917 1918 1920–1921 1922–1938 1942–1945 Basketball 1912–1915 1915–1916 1920–1922 1922–1946 Baseball 1912–1915 1912 1916–1919 1923–1946 |
Alabama Texas A&M (assistant) Texas A&M Montana Agricultural Washington (assistant) Washington (assistant) Alabama Texas A&M Montana Agricultural Washington (assistant) Alabama La Junta Railroaders Texas A&M Washington |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 32–18–4 (football) 50–27 (basketball) 347–219–8 (college baseball) |
| Statistics | |
| College Football Data Warehouse | |
Dorsett Vandeventer "Tubby" Graves (1886 – January 16, 1960) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and a player of football and baseball in the United States. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama (1911–1914), Texas A&M University (1918), and the Agricultural College of the State of Montana, now known as Montana State University – Bozeman (1920–1921), compiling a career record of 32–18–4. Graves also coached basketball at Alabama (1912–1915), Texas A&M (1915–1916), and Montana Agricultural (1920–1922) and baseball at Alabama (1912–1915), Texas A&M (1916–1919), and the University of Washington (1923–1946). In 1912, Graves was the manager of the La Junta Railroaders, a minor league baseball team of the short-lived Rocky Mountain League.[1]
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Graves played college football at Missouri from 1906 to 1908. He coached at Alabama, Texas A&M, and what is now Montana State. From 1911 to 1914, he led the Alabama program to a 21–12–3 record. In 1918, he coached at Texas A&M, where he compiled a 6–1 record. From 1920 to 1921, he was at Montana State, where he compiled a 5–5–1 record. While head coach of the baseball team at Washington, Graves also served as an assistant coach in football.
Graves coached Alabama from 1913 to 1915 where he compiled a record of 20–12 (.625).[2] At Washington, he was an assistant coach for 24 seasons under head coach Hec Edmundson.
Graves was the head coach at Alabama, Texas A&M, and Washington, where he led the Huskies for 24 seasons (1923–1946). The UW athletic office building and the former baseball field (through 1997) were named for Graves; he was posthumously inducted into the Big W Club, the UW athletics hall of fame, in 1980.[3]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Alabama Crimson Tide (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1911–1914) | |||||||||
| 1911 | Alabama | 5–2–2 | 2–2–2 | ||||||
| 1912 | Alabama | 5–3–1 | 3–3–1 | ||||||
| 1913 | Alabama | 6–3 | 4–3 | ||||||
| 1914 | Alabama | 5–4 | 4–3 | ||||||
| Alabama: | 21–12–3 | 13–11–3 | |||||||
| Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1918) | |||||||||
| 1918 | Texas A&M | 6–1 | 1–1 | T–3rd | |||||
| Texas A&M: | 6–1 | 1–1 | |||||||
| Montana Agricultural Bobcats (Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) (1920–1921) | |||||||||
| 1920 | Montana Agricultural | 3–1–1 | |||||||
| 1921 | Montana Agricultural | 2–4 | |||||||
| Montana Agricultural: | 5–5–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 32–18–4 | ||||||||
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