Frank Gorton

Frank Gorton
Biographical details
Gorton pictured in The Bomb 1915, VMI yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball, track and field
Born	c. 1876
Died	March 20, 1939 (aged 62) Lexington, Virginia
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1906–1907	Rutgers
1908–1910	Occidental
1914–1916	VMI
1934	Rochester (NY) (assistant)
Basketball
1906–1908	Rutgers
1914–1917	VMI
1917–1918	Otterbein
Baseball
1907	Rutgers

Head coaching record
Overall	37–23–6 (football) 34–30 (basketball)

Frank H. Gorton (c. 1876 – March 20, 1939) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Rutgers University from 1906 to 1907, Occidental College from 1908 to 1910, and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1914 to 1916, compiling a career college football record of 37–23–6. Gorton was also the head basketball coach at Rutgers from 1906 to 1909, at VMI from 1914 to 1917, and at Otterbein College during the 1917–18 season, amassing a career college basketball mark of 33–31. In addition, he served as the head baseball coach at Rutgers in 1907. Gorton died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in Lexington, Virginia on March 20, 1939.^[1]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall
Rutgers Queensmen (Independent) (1906–1907)
1906	Rutgers	5–2–2
1907	Rutgers	3–5–1
Rutgers:		8–7–3
Occidental Tigers (Independent) (1908–1910)
1908	Occidental	9–2
1909	Occidental	4–1–1
1908	Occidental	2–2–1
Occidental:		15–5–2
VMI Keydets (Independent) (1914–1916)
1914	VMI	4–4
1915	VMI	6–2–1
1916	VMI	4–5
VMI:		14–11–1
Total:		37–23–6

Season	Team	Overall
Rutgers Queensmen (Independent) (1906–1907)
1906–07	Rutgers	0–3
1907–08	Rutgers	4–11
Rutgers:		4–14
VMI Keydets (Independent) (1914–1917)
1914–15	VMI	8–2
1915–16	VMI	9–3
1916–17	VMI	9–5
VMI:		26–10
Otterbein Cardinals (Independent) (1917–1918)
1917–18	Otterbein	4–6
Otterbein:		4–6
Total:		34–30

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Frank Gorton (1906–1908)
No team (1908–1913)
Dave Armstrong (1913–1914)
George Davidson (1914–1915)
Frank Hill (1915–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Thomas Kenneally (1944–1945)
Donald White (1945–1956)
Warren Harris (1956–1959)
Tony Kuolt (1959–1962)
Donald White (1962–1963)
Bill Foster (1963–1971)
Dick Lloyd (1971–1973)
Tom Young (1973–1985)
Craig Littlepage (1985–1988)
Bob Wenzel (1988–1997)
Kevin Bannon (1997–2001)
Gary Waters (2001–2006)
Fred Hill (2006–2010)
Mike Rice Jr. (2010–2013)
Eddie Jordan (2013–2016)
Steve Pikiell (2016– )

Rutgers Scarlet Knights head baseball coaches
No coach (1870–1906) Frank Gorton (1907) Frank Cox (1908–1911) Walter Brodie (1912–1915) Chaz Piez (1916–1917) Frank Cox (1918–1925) Fred Jacklitsch (1926–1931) J. Wilder Tasker (1932–1937) Charles A. Ward (1938–1949) George Case (1950–1960) Matt Bolger (1961–1983) Fred Hill (1984–2013) Joe Litterio (2014– )

No coach (1895–1898)
No team (1899–1898)
F. S. Hilton (1900–1902)
Clarence Hempel (1903–1904)
Ed Merrill (1905–1906)
John Lawrence Goheen (1907)
Frank Gorton (1908–1910)
Joseph Pipal (1911–1915)
Fox Stanton (1916)
Walter Rheinschild (1917)
Fox Stanton (1918–1920)
Joseph Pipal (1921–1923)
Sid Nichols (1924–1925)
Albert Exendine (1926–1927)
Eddie Kienholz (1928–1931)
Bill Anderson (1932–1939)
Gus Henderson (1940–1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Roy Dennis (1945–1956)
Charles Cooker (1957–1959)
Vic Schwenk (1960–1963)
Jim E. Mora (1964–1966)
Doug Gerhart (1967–1969)
Bob H. Black (1970–1972)
Hal Lefler (1973–1975)
Bill McQueary (1976–1978)
Bruce Allen (1979)
Jerry Howell (1980–1981)
Dale Widolff (1982–2011)
Bill Redell (2012)
Doug Semones (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Pete Krebs (1908–1909)
F. J. Pratt (1909–1910)
J. Mitchell (1910–1911)
Alpha Brumage (1911–1913)
W. C. Raftery (1913–1914)
Frank Gorton (1914–1917)
Earl Abell (1917–1919)
Pinky Spruhan (1919–1922)
W. C. Raftery (1922–1934)
Frank Summers (1934–1936)
Allison Hubert (1936–1937)
Albert Elmore (1937–1938)
Jimmy Walker (1938–1942)
Pooley Hubert (1942–1943)
Joe Daher (1943–1945)
Jay McWilliams (1945–1946)
Lloyd Roberts (1946–1947)
Frank Summers (1947–1949)
Bill O'Hara (1949–1952)
Chuck Noe (1952–1955)
Jack Null (1955–1958)
Weenie Miller (1958–1964)
Gary McPherson (1964–1969)
Mike Schuler (1969–1972)
Bill Blair (1972–1976)
Charlie Schmaus (1976–1982)
Marty Fletcher (1982–1986)
Joe Cantafio (1986–1994)
Bart Bellairs (1994–2005)
Duggar Baucom (2005–2015)
Dan Earl (2015– )

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