:Frank Gorton

{{Short description|American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Frank Gorton

| image = Frank Gorton.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Gorton pictured in The Bomb 1915, VMI yearbook

| birth_date = 1877

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date|1939|3|20}} (aged 62)

| death_place = Lexington, Virginia, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1906–1907

| coach_team2 = Rutgers

| coach_years3 = 1908–1910

| coach_team3 = Occidental

| coach_years4 = 1914–1916

| coach_team4 = VMI

| coach_years5 = 1917

| coach_team5 = Otterbein

| coach_years6 = 1918

| coach_team6 = Fisk

| coach_years7 = 1925

| coach_team7 = Rochester (NY) (assistant)

| coach_years8 = 1934

| coach_team8 = Rochester (NY) (assistant)

| coach_sport9 = Basketball

| coach_years10 = 1906–1908

| coach_team10 = Rutgers

| coach_years11 = 1914–1917

| coach_team11 = VMI

| coach_years12 = 1917–1918

| coach_team12 = Otterbein

| coach_sport13 = Baseball

| coach_years14 = 1907

| coach_team14 = Rutgers

| coach_years15 = 1915–1917

| coach_team15 = VMI

| coach_years16 = 1939

| coach_team16 = Ohio State (assistant trainer)

| coach_sport17 = Track

| coach_years18 = 1915–1917

| coach_team18 = VMI

| coach_years19 = 1926–1937

| coach_team19 = Rochester

| admin_years1 = 1926–1928

| admin_team1 = VMI

| overall_record = 38–29–6 (football)
34–30 (basketball)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships =

| awards =

| coaching_records =

}}

Frank H. Gorton (1877 – March 20, 1939) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Rutgers University from 1906 to 1907, Occidental College from 1908 to 1910, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1914 to 1916, and Otterbein College—now known as Otterbein University—in 1917, compiling a career college football record of 38–29–6.{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/east-liverpool-evening-review-sep-26-1917-p-12/|title=College Lose Many Players|date=September 26, 1917|work=The Evening Review|location=East Liverpool, Ohio|access-date=February 11, 2018}} Gorton was also the head basketball coach at Rutgers from 1906 to 1909, at VMI from 1914 to 1917, and at Otterbein College during the 1917–18 season, amassing a career college basketball mark of 33–31. In addition, he served as the head baseball coach at Rutgers in 1907. Gorton returned to VMI in 1926 to serve as the school's athletic director.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/bomb1927virg#page/260/mode/1up/search/Gorton|title=The Bomb|year=1927|publisher=VMI|access-date=February 11, 2018}}

Gorton died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in Lexington, Virginia on March 20, 1939.{{cite news |title=Frank H. Gorton |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/03/21/94693599.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=March 21, 1939 |access-date=January 25, 2012}}

Head coaching record

=Football=

{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Rutgers Queensmen

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1906

| endyear = 1907

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1906

| name = Rutgers

| overall = 5–2–2

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1907

| name = Rutgers

| overall = 3–5–1

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Rutgers

| overall = 8–7–3

| confrecord =

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Occidental Tigers

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1908

| endyear = 1910

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1908

| name = Occidental

| overall = 9–2

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1909

| name = Occidental

| overall = 4–1–1

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1910

| name = Occidental

| overall = 2–2–1

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Occidental

| overall = 15–5–2

| confrecord =

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = VMI Keydets

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1914

| endyear = 1916

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1914

| name = VMI

| overall = 4–4

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1915

| name = VMI

| overall = 6–2–1

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1916

| name = VMI

| overall = 4–5

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = VMI

| overall = 14–11–1

| confrecord =

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Otterbein Cardinals

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1917

| endyear = singe

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1917

| name = Otterbein

| overall = 1–6

| conference =

| confstanding =

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Otterbein

| overall = 1–6

| confrecord =

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 38–29–6

| bowls = no

| poll = no

| polltype =

| legend = no

}}

=Basketball=

{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason= | poll = }}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Rutgers Queensmen

| conference = Independent

| startyear = 1906

| endyear = 1907

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1906–07

| name = Rutgers

| overall = 0–3

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1907–08

| name = Rutgers

| overall = 4–11

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Rutgers

| overall = 4–14

| confrecord =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = VMI Keydets

| conference = Independent

| startyear = 1914

| endyear = 1917

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1914–15

| name = VMI

| overall = 8–2

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1915–16

| name = VMI

| overall = 9–3

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1916–17

| name = VMI

| overall = 9–5

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = VMI

| overall = 26–10

| confrecord =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Otterbein Cardinals

| conference = Independent

| startyear = 1917

| endyear = 1918

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1917–18

| name = Otterbein

| overall = 4–6

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Otterbein

| overall = 4–6

| confrecord =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record End

| overall = 34–30

| legend = no

}}

[http://www.vmikeydets.com/pdf9/2560532.pdf?ATCLID=209295912&SPSID=43813&SPID=3897&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=9800 2013–14 VMI Basketball Fact Book][http://www.otterbeincardinals.com/custompages/Mbasketball/PDF's/13-14MBBMediaGuide.pdf 2013–14 Otterbein Basketball Media Guide]