Frank Gorton

Frank Gorton
	Gorton pictured in The Bomb 1915, VMI yearbook
Biographical details
Born	1877
Died	March 20, 1939 (aged 62); Lexington, Virginia, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1906–1907	Rutgers
1908–1910	Occidental
1914–1916	VMI
1917	Otterbein
1918	Fisk
1925	Rochester (NY) (assistant)
1934	Rochester (NY) (assistant)
Basketball
1906–1908	Rutgers
1914–1917	VMI
1917–1918	Otterbein
Baseball
1907	Rutgers
1915–1917	VMI
1939	Ohio State (assistant trainer)
Track
1915–1917	VMI
1926–1937	Rochester
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1926–1928	VMI
Head coaching record
Overall	38–29–6 (football); 34–30 (basketball)

Frank H. Gorton (1877 – 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, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1914 to 1916, and Otterbein College—now known as Otterbein University—in 1917, compiling a career college football record of 38–29–6.^[1] 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 returned to VMI in 1926 to serve as the school's athletic director.^[2]

Gorton died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in Lexington, Virginia on March 20, 1939.^[3]

Head coaching record[edit]


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
1910	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
Otterbein Cardinals (Independent) (1917–singe)
1917	Otterbein	1–6
Otterbein:		1–6
Total:		38–29–6

Statistics overview
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

^ "College Lose Many Players". The Evening Review. East Liverpool, Ohio. September 26, 1917. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
^ The Bomb. VMI. 1927. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
^ "Frank H. Gorton" (PDF). The New York Times. Associated Press. March 21, 1939. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
^ 2013–14 VMI Basketball Fact Book
^ 2013–14 Otterbein Basketball Media Guide

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