1. Jesse Raymond Morrison was an American football and baseball player and a coach of football, basketball, and baseball.
28 Facts About Ray Morrison
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Ray Morrison was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954.
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Ray Morrison piloted the team to two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles in 1910 and 1911.
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Ray Morrison took over as coach at his alma mater Vanderbilt after the retirement of legendary coach Dan McGugin.
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Ray Morrison was the Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year in 1937.
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Ray Morrison was the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football, and helped popularize the forward pass in the Southwest with his "Flying Circus" teams, most notably when led by Gerald Mann.
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Ray Morrison was born on February 28,1885, in Sugar Branch, Indiana.
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Ray Morrison spent a year at McTyeire School for Boys.
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Ray Morrison won Bachelor of Ugliness for the class of 1912.
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Ray Morrison played on the football and baseball teams with his brother Kent.
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Ray Morrison played football as a prominent quarterback and halfback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt football teams from 1908 to 1911.
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Ray Morrison is considered one of the best quarterbacks in Vanderbilt's long history.
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Ray Morrison was selected for an all-time Vanderbilt team in 1934.
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In 1915, John Heisman selected his 30 greatest Southern football players, and Ray Morrison was one of two quarterbacks selected.
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Late in the first quarter, Ray Morrison returned a punt 90 yards for Vanderbilt's touchdown.
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Ray Morrison was the star of the Georgia Tech game, scoring two touchdowns.
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Ray Morrison had a 70-yard run, and on a fake punt out of his own end zone ran for 75 yards.
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Against Sewanee, Ray Morrison threw a touchdown pass to Hardage, as well as had a short touchdown run.
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Ray Morrison played on the baseball team, moved to the outfield from catcher in his junior year, and back to catcher as a senior.
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In 1919, Ray Morrison spent a year at Gulf Coast Military Academy as athletics director and teacher.
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Ray Morrison was the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football.
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Ray Morrison won just two games in two years from 1915 to 1916.
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Ray Morrison notably brought the forward pass to the southwest during his time at SMU.
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Ray Morrison was one of the first to pass not just on first down, but on first and second down too.
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Ray Morrison brought his own staff from SMU and neglected the retained Josh Cody's coaching abilities.
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Ray Morrison was awarded SEC Coach of the Year in 1937.
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Ray Morrison quit to take over "development and public relations" at SMU, a post he held for eleven years.
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Ray Morrison died at the home of his son in Miami Springs, Florida, at the age of 97.