Morley Jennings
{{Short description|American athlete, coach, and administrator (1890–1985)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Morley Jennings
| image = Morley Jennings.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|1|23}}
| birth_place = Holland, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|5|13|1890|1|23}}
| death_place = Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1910–1911
| player_team2 = Mississippi State
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1912–1925
| coach_team2 = Ouachita Baptist
| coach_years3 = 1926–1940
| coach_team3 = Baylor
| coach_sport4 = Baseball
| coach_years5 = 1929–1938
| coach_team5 = Baylor
| admin_years1 = 1941–1951
| admin_team1 = Texas Tech
| overall_record = 153–77–18 (football)
120–79 (baseball)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships =
| awards =
| coaching_records =
| CFBHOF_year = 1973
| CFBHOF_id = 1518
|module={{Infobox baseball biography|embed=yes
|name=Bill Morley
|position=Second baseman
|image=
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=September 8
|debutyear={{baseball year|1913}}
|debutteam=Washington Senators
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 9
|finalyear={{baseball year|1913}}
|finalteam=Washington Senators
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=Batting average
|stat1value=.000
|stat2label=At bats
|stat2value=3
|stat3label=Hits
|stat3value=0
|teams=
- Washington Senators (1913)
}}}}
William Morley "Jopsey" Jennings (January 23, 1890 – May 13, 1985) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
Biography
Jennings attended college at Mississippi State University in Starkville, at which he participated in baseball, basketball, football, and track. Jennings served from 1912 to 1925 as the head football coach at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and then at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, from 1926 to 1940. He compiled a career college football record of 153–77–18. He was also the head baseball coach at Baylor from 1928 to 1939, where he tallied a mark of 120–79. From 1941 to 1951, Jennings served as the athletic director at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.{{Cite book|last=Andrews|first=Ruth Horn|title=The First Thirty Years: a History of Texas Technological College|publisher=The Texas Tech Press|pages=305, 306–307|year=1956|location=Lubbock, Texas}} He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1973.
Jennings was also a Major League Baseball second baseman. He played in two games for the Washington Senators in {{baseball year|1913}}, going 0-for-3.
Jennings and his wife, Elizabeth, had one son, Richard Autrey Jennings (1917–2019), who was born while the couple lived in Arkadelphia. In 1942, Richard Jennings obtained his Juris Doctor from George Washington Law School in Washington, D.C., where he worked on Capitol Hill for Texas U.S. Senator Tom Connally and operated an elevator in the Capitol. He subsequently practiced law in Lubbock for seventy-six years before moving to Corinth in Denton County, Texas, in his later years.{{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?n=richard-autrey-jennings&pid=191311086|title=Richard Jennings|newspaper=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal|date=January 20, 2019}}
Head coaching record
=Football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Ouachita Baptist Tigers
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1912
| endyear = 1925
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1912
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 2–2–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1913
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 3–2–3
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1914
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 8–0–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1915
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 7–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1916
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 4–2
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1917
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 4–0
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1918
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 2–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1919
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 4–1–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1920
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 6–1–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1921
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 5–3
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1922
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 6–1–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1923
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 4–3–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1924
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 8–0–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1925
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 7–0–2
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Ouachita Baptist
| overall = 70–17–12
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Baylor Bears
| conf = Southwest Conference
| startyear = 1926
| endyear = 1940
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1926
| name = Baylor
| overall = 6–3–1
| conference = 3–1–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1927
| name = Baylor
| overall = 2–7
| conference = 0–5
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1928
| name = Baylor
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 3–2
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1929
| name = Baylor
| overall = 7–3–1
| conference = 2–2–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1930
| name = Baylor
| overall = 6–3–1
| conference = 3–1–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1931
| name = Baylor
| overall = 3–6
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1932
| name = Baylor
| overall = 3–5–1
| conference = 1–3–1
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1933
| name = Baylor
| overall = 6–4
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1934
| name = Baylor
| overall = 3–7
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1935
| name = Baylor
| overall = 8–3
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1936
| name = Baylor
| overall = 6–3–1
| conference = 3–2–1
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1937
| name = Baylor
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1938
| name = Baylor
| overall = 7–2–1
| conference = 3–2–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1939
| name = Baylor
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1940
| name = Baylor
| overall = 4–6
| conference = 0–6
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Baylor
| overall = 83–60–6
| confrecord = 33–44–6
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 153–77–18
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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External links
- {{College Football HoF|1518}}
- {{Baseballstats |mlb= |espn= |br=m/morlebi01 |fangraphs= |cube= |brm=morley001wil}}
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