Vic Hurt Explained

Vic Hurt
Birth Date:13 March 1899
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1923–1929
Coach Team2:Oklahoma Baptist
Coach Years3:1931–1934
Coach Team3:Oklahoma Baptist
Coach Years4:1935
Coach Team4:SMU (assistant)
Coach Years5:1936–1938
Coach Years6:1939–1942
Coach Team6:Kansas (assistant)
Coach Sport7:Basketball
Coach Years8:1923–1930
Coach Team8:Oklahoma Baptist
Coach Years9:1931–1935
Coach Team9:Oklahoma Baptist
Overall Record:78–38–12 (football)
81–86 (basketball)
Championships:Football
1 OIC (1927)
3 MVC (1936–1938)

Victor Clinton Hurt (March 13, 1899 – May 17, 1978) was an American football, basketball, and track coach and college athletic administrator. He attended College of Emporia and played football for the Presbies football team. He began his coaching career in 1920.[1] For 11 years, he coached track, basketball and football and was the athletic director at Oklahoma Baptist University. During the 1935 season, he was an assistant coach on the 1935 SMU Mustangs football team that went undefeated in the regular season.[2] He was the head football coach for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team during the 1936, 1937, and 1938 seasons.[3] After the 1938 season, he joined the coaching staff at the University of Kansas.[4] He coached for four years at Kansas and, in 1944, he was hired as the manager of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.[5] [6] He later became president of the Southwest Art Association and, in 1958, was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame.[7]

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. News: Hurt Wins 98. Arizona Republic. February 18, 1936. 11.
  2. News: Hurt Lauded As Assistant. Valley Morning Star. December 4, 1935. 5.
  3. Web site: Vic Hurt. Sports Reference LLC. SR/College Football. March 2, 2016.
  4. News: Vic Hurt of Tulsa Joins Kansas Staff. The Milwaukee Journal. December 9, 1938.
  5. News: Vic Hurt Resigns From K.U. Staff. Lawrence Journal-World. December 5, 1942.
  6. News: Vic Hurt Is Elected. Lawrence Journal-World. January 20, 1944.
  7. News: Vic Hurt Named To Hall of Fame. The Emporia (KS) Gazette. November 28, 1958. 4.