Ernest Graves, Sr.

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Ernest Graves

Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1880-03-27)March 27, 1880 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Died	June 9, 1953(1953-06-09) (aged 73) Washington, D.C.
Playing career
Football 1897–1900 1901–1904 Baseball c. 1904	North Carolina Army Army
Position(s)	Fullback (football) Catcher (baseball)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1906 1908 1912 Baseball 1901	Army Harvard (line) Army North Carolina
Head coaching record
Overall	7–8–1 (football) 11–4–2 (baseball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Ernest "Pot" Graves (March 27, 1880 – June 9, 1953) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1906 and 1912. Graves retired from the Army with the rank of brigadier general.

Biography

Graves was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating second in his class in 1905. He served with the 3rd Engineers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and subsequently served in the Philippines from 1909 to 1910. He later served in Mexico with General John J. Pershing, commanding the engineering company that built roads to allow supplies to be provided to the Army. He also served with Pershing in France during World War I. During World War I, he was placed in charge of the Intermediate Section and was responsible for building warehouses used to supply the Army in France. He was retired from the Army in 1921 due to deafness.^[2]

Family and death

After leaving the military, Graves married Lucie Gunn Birnie in 1923.^[2] Graves' son, Ernest Graves, Jr., became a lieutenant general in the Army. Graves died at the age of 73 on June 9, 1953 at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.^[3]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall
Army Cadets (Independent) (1906)
1906	Army	2–5–1^{[n 1]}
Army Cadets (Independent) (1912)
1912	Army	5–3
Army:		7–8–1
Total:		7–8–1

Notes

↑ Graves took over as head coach after Henry Smither was relieved from duty following a 12–0 victory over Tufts in the season opener.^[1]

References

↑ "2011 Army Football Media Guide". CBS Interactive. August 4, 2011. p. 186. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Engineer Memoirs: Lieutenant General Ernest Graves". U.S. Army.
↑ AP (June 12, 1953). "BRIG. GEN. GRAVES, 73, OF RIVER COMMISSION". The New York Times. Retrieved July 12, 2011.

External links

Ernest Graves at the College Football Data Warehouse

North Carolina Tar Heels head baseball coaches

Perrin Busbee (1891–1893)
William R. Robertson (1894)
Jesse M. Oldham (1895)
Benjamin E. Stanley (1896–1897)
William A. Reynolds (1898–1899)
Bob Lawson (1900)
Ernest Graves, Sr. (1901)
Edward M. Ashenback (1902)
John Curran (1903)
John Donnelly (1904)
Bob Lawson (1905–1906)
Floyd Simmons (1907)
Otis Stocksdale (1908–1909)
Bob Lawson (1910)
Charles M. Clancey (1911–1912)
Bowers (1913)
Earl T. Mack (1914)
Charles Doak (1915–1916)
Bunny Hearn (1917–1918)
William Lourcey (1919–1920)
Bill Fetzer (1921–1925)
Vern Duncan (1926)
James N. Ashmore (1927–1931)
Bunny Hearn (1932–1946)
Walter Rabb (1947–1977)
Mike Roberts (1978–1998)
Mike Fox (1999– )

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 (2009–2013)
Jeff Monken (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Persondata
Name	Graves, Ernest
Alternative names	Graves, Pot
Short description	American football and baseball player and coach, army officer
Date of birth	March 27, 1880
Place of birth	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Date of death	June 9, 1953
Place of death	Washington, D.C.

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