Earl Gartman | |
Birth Date: | 23 June 1920 |
Birth Place: | Gadsden, Alabama, U.S. |
Death Place: | Apopka, Florida, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Howard College (AL) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1949–1953 |
Coach Team2: | Howard (AL) |
Coach Years3: | 1955–1957 |
Coach Team3: | Austin Peay (backfield) |
Coach Years4: | 1958–1959 |
Coach Team4: | Austin Peay |
Coach Years5: | 1963–1965 |
Coach Team5: | Los Fresnos HS (TX) |
Coach Years6: | 1966 |
Coach Team6: | Trinity (TX) (backfield) |
Coach Years7: | 1967–1969 |
Coach Team7: | Trinity (TX) |
Coach Sport8: | Basketball |
Coach Years9: | 1950–1955 |
Coach Team9: | Howard (AL) |
Coach Sport10: | Baseball |
Coach Years11: | 1952–1955 |
Coach Team11: | Howard (AL) |
Coach Years12: | 1962–1963 |
Coach Team12: | Texas–Pan American |
Admin Years1: | c. 1954 |
Admin Team1: | Howard (AL) |
Admin Years2: | 1963–1966 |
Admin Team2: | Los Fresnos HS (TX) |
Overall Record: | 30–61–1 (college football) 71–73 (college basketball) 60–49 (college baseball) |
Earl Lloyd Gartman (June 23, 1920 – March 8, 1995) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Howard College—now known as Samford University—in Homewood, Alabama from 1949 to 1953, at Austin Peay State University from 1958 to 1959, and at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas from 1967 to 1969, compiling a career college football record of 30–61–1. Gartman was also the head basketball coach at Howard from 1950 to 1955, tallying a mark of 71–73. He was the head baseball coach at Howard from 1952 to 1955 and at the University of Texas–Pan American from 1962 to 1963, amassing a career college baseball record of 60–49.
Gartman graduated from Howard College and earned a master's degree at George Peabody College, now known as Peabody College, a part of Vanderbilt University.[1]