Laurie Bliss

Laurie Bliss

Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	November 28, 1872(1872-11-28)
Place of birth	New York City, New York
Died	November 12, 1942(1942-11-12) (aged 69)
Place of death	Wilmington, Delaware
Playing career
1890–1892	Yale
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1893 1895	Army Lehigh
Head coaching record
Overall	7–11
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Laurence Thornton "Laurie" Bliss (November 28, 1872 – November 12, 1942) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1893 and at Lehigh University in 1895, compiling a career college football record of 7–11. Bliss played football at Yale University as a halfback alongside his brother, C. D. "Pop" Bliss, who went on to coach at Stanford University, Haverford College, and the University of Missouri.

1 Coaching career
- 1.1 Army
- 1.2 Lehigh
2 Head coaching record
3 References
4 External links

Coaching career

Army

Bliss took his first head coaching job at West Point and led the team to 4 wins and 5 losses. He was the third person appointed to the position of head football coach at West Point. The season included losses to Navy and to Lehigh University where he would coach in two years.^[1]

Lehigh

Bliss was the fourth head football coach for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and he held that position for the 1895 season. His overall coaching record at Lehigh was 3 wins, 6 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 24th at Lehigh in terms of total wins and 21st at Lehigh in terms of winning percentage.^[2]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall
Army Cadets (Independent) (1893)
1893	Army	4–5
Army:		4–5
Lehigh Brown and White (Independent) (1895)
1895	Lehigh	3–6
Lehigh:		3–6
Total:		7–11

References

External links

Laurie Bliss at the College Football Data Warehouse

Army Cadets / Black Knights head football coaches

Dennis Michie (1890)
Henry L. Williams (1891)
Dennis Michie (1892)
Laurie Bliss (1893)
Harmon S. Graves (1894–1895)
George P. Dyer (1896)
Herman Koehler (1897–1900)
Leon Kromer (1901)
Dennis E. Nolan (1902)
Edward Leonard King (1903)
Robert Boyers (1904–1905)
Ernest Graves, Sr. (1906)
Henry Smither (1906–1907)
Harry Nelly (1908–1910)
Joseph Beacham (1911)
Ernest Graves, Sr. (1912)
Charles Dudley Daly (1913–1916)
Geoffrey Keyes (1917)
Hugh Mitchell (1918)
Charles Dudley Daly (1919–1922)
John McEwan (1923–1925)
Biff Jones (1926–1929)
Ralph Sasse (1930–1932)
Garrison H. Davidson (1933–1937)
William H. Wood (1938–1940)
Earl Blaik (1941–1958)
Dale Hall (1959–1961)
Paul Dietzel (1962–1965)
Tom Cahill (1966–1973)
Homer Smith (1974–1978)
Lou Saban (1979)
Ed Cavanaugh (1980–1982)
Jim Young (1983–1990)
Bob Sutton (1991–1999)
Todd Berry (2000–2003)
John Mumford # (2003)
Bobby Ross (2004–2006)
Stan Brock (2007–2008)
Rich Ellerson (2009– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Lehigh Engineers / Mountain Hawks head football coaches

No coach (1884–1891)
Josh Hartwell (1892)
Harmon S. Graves (1893)
William Heffelfinger (1894)
Laurie Bliss (1895)
L. N. Morris (1896)
S. M. Hammond (1897)
Samuel Huston Thompson (1898–1899)
Walter R. Okeson (1900)
J. W. H. Pollard (1901)
Samuel B. Newton (1902–1905)
Byron W. Dickson (1906–1909)
Howard R. Reiter (1910–1911)
Tom Keady (1912–1920)
Frank Glick (1921)
James A. Baldwin (1922–1924)
Percy L. Wendell (1925–1927)
A. Austin Tate (1928–1933)
Glen Harmeson (1934–1941)
George Hoban (1942)
Leo Prendergast (1943–1945)
William Leckonby (1946–1961)
Mike Cooley (1962–1964)
Frederick Dunlap (1965–1975)
John Whitehead (1976–1985)
Hank Small (1986–1993)
Kevin Higgins (1994–2000)
Pete Lembo (2001–2005)
Andy Coen (2006–)

Persondata
Name	Bliss, Laurie
Alternative names	Bliss, Laurence Thornton; Bliss, Laurence T.
Short description	American football coach
Date of birth	November 28, 1872
Place of birth	New York City, New York
Date of death	November 12, 1942
Place of death	Wilmington, Delaware