Alexander Brown Mackie

Alexander Brown Mackie
Sport(s) Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born May 1, 1894
Gazam, Pennsylvania[1]
Died June 5, 1966 (aged 72)
Salina, Kansas
Playing career
Football
1913
Dickinson Seminary
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1921–1937

Basketball
1921–1938
Kansas Wesleyan


Kansas Wesleyan
Head coaching record
Overall 73–40–13 (football)
113–161 (basketball)

Statistics

Accomplishments and honors

Championships

6 KCAC (1927, 1929, 1931, 1934–1936)

Alexander Brown Mackie was college professor, business college founder, and an American football coach in the United States.

Academic contributions

Mackie was the co-founder of Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kansas. He and Perry E. Brown founded the school as a business college, taking what was a part of the Kansas Wesleyan school of business.[2] The school operates today with campuses in many locations across the United States.

Before moving to Salina and Kansas Wesleyan, Mackie was a student at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.[3]

Athletics

Playing career

Mackie played football for Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the 1913 season.[4]

Coaching career

Mackie was the ninth head football coach for the Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes located in Salina, Kansas and he held that position for 17 seasons, from 1921 until 1937. His coaching record at Kansas Wesleyan was 73 wins, 40 losses, and 13 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2009 season, this ranks him 2 at Kansas Wesleyan in total wins and second at the school in winning percentage (.631). [5]

Mackie's 1922 team was considered having "no great strengths" by football legend Walter Camp.[6] As he spent more time with the program, his teams encountered more success. Mackie's teams won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship five times during his tenure.[7] Midway through the 1931 season, his team was one of the few undefeated teams in the country.[8]

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Independent) (1921–1923)
1921 Kansas Wesleyan 0–3
1922 Kansas Wesleyan 0–3
1923 Kansas Wesleyan 1–1–1
Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1924–1937)
1924 Kansas Wesleyan 5–3
1925 Kansas Wesleyan 4–2–1
1926 Kansas Wesleyan 4–4
1927 Kansas Wesleyan 7–0–1
1928 Kansas Wesleyan 5–2–2
1929 Kansas Wesleyan 6–0–2
1930 Kansas Wesleyan 4–3–2
1931 Kansas Wesleyan 5–1–2
1932 Kansas Wesleyan 5–3
1933 Kansas Wesleyan 5–4
1934 Kansas Wesleyan 5–4
1935 Kansas Wesleyan 4–3–1
1936 Kansas Wesleyan 7–1–1
1937 Kansas Wesleyan 5–3–1
Kansas Wesleyan: 72–40–14
Total: 72–40–14
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title

References

  1. ↑ Jones, J.J. (2013). What It Meant to be a Coyote Book II. Xlibris Corporation. p. 13. ISBN 9781479771806. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  2. ↑ Brown Mackie College history
  3. ↑ Seventy-Second Catalogue of Ohio Wesleyan University 1916
  4. ↑ The Dickinson Union October 1913
  5. ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes coaching records
  6. ↑ The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by Walter Camp) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922
  7. ↑ Kansas Wesleyan University Football media guide
  8. ↑ The Evening Independent "Only Five Teams Undefeated and Untied" November 30, 1931

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