Hank Garrity (coach) explained

Hank Garrity
Birth Date:30 January 1900
Birth Place:Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1919–1921
Player Team2:Princeton
Player Sport3:Baseball
Player Years4:c. 1922
Player Team4:Princeton
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1922
Coach Team2:Missouri (assistant)
Coach Years3:1923–1925
Coach Team3:Wake Forest
Coach Sport4:Basketball
Coach Years5:1923–1925
Coach Team5:Wake Forest
Coach Sport6:Baseball
Coach Years7:1923
Coach Team7:Missouri
Coach Years8:1924–1925
Coach Team8:Wake Forest
Admin Years1:1923–1926
Admin Team1:Wake Forest
Overall Record:19–7–1 (football)
33–14 (basketball)
Awards:

Martin Henry Garrity Jr. (January 30, 1900 – August 30, 1972) was an American football and baseball player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1923 to 1925, compiling a record of 19–7–1. Garrity was also the head basketball coach at Wake Forest from 1923 to 1925, tallying a mark of 33–14. He served as the head baseball coach at the University of Missouri in 1923 and at Wake Forest from 1924 to 1925.

Garrity was an alumnus of Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1922. At Princeton he played football and baseball. Garrity came to Missouri in 1922 as an assistant football coach. There he served under head coach Thomas Kelley.[1]

Garrity was born on January 30, 1900, in Quincy, Massachusetts. He died on August 30, 1972, in Boston, where he had resided in his later years.[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. News: Tigers Get New Coaching Staff; Strategy of East, West, and Middle West Will Guide Missouri . . . September 6, 1922 . December 28, 2013 . .
  2. November 27, 1973 . Memorials . . The Trustees of Princeton University . 74 . 20 . December 28, 2013 . .