Lovette Hill Explained

Lovette Hill
Birth Date:23 March 1907
Birth Place:Granger, Texas, U.S.
Death Place:Houston, Texas, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1928–1931
Player Team2:Centenary
Player Positions:End[1]
Coach Sport1:Baseball
Coach Years2:1950–1974
Coach Team2:Houston
Coach Sport3:Football
Coach Years4:1949–1961
Coach Team4:Houston (assistant)
Championships:
  • GCC regular season (1950)
  • 3 MVC tournament (1951, 1953, 1960)
  • 4 MVC regular season (1951–1953, 1960)
Awards:
  • University of Houston Hall of Honor (2004)

Lovette Lee Hill (March 23, 1907 – August 27, 1989) was an American football and baseball coach. He was the fourth head coach of the Houston Cougars baseball team from 1950 to 1974.[2] Hill holds the record for the longest serving head baseball coach in University of Houston history.[3] While at Houston, Hill compiled a 343–325–5 record with five first-place finishes in the Missouri Valley Conference. He guided the Cougars to their only two College World Series appearances, in 1953 and 1967. In 1967, his team was national runner-up.

From 1949 to 1961, Hill also served as an assistant coach for the Houston Cougars football team. He graduated in 1931 from Centenary College of Louisiana.

Notes and References

  1. News: Lovette Hill New Assistant Coach at Houston U. . . July 30, 1949 . 9.
  2. News: Former UH baseball coach dies . . August 29, 1989 . July 18, 2011.
  3. Web site: UH Hall of Honor . Houston Cougars athletics . July 28, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070808160159/http://uhcougars.cstv.com/genrel/hall_of_honor.html . August 8, 2007 . dead .