Tillman Sease
{{Short description|American football and baseball coach (1916–1988)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Tillman Sease
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|9|6}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|9|2|1916|9|6}}
| death_place = Cheverly, Maryland, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1948–1955
| coach_team2 = Christiansburg Institute
| coach_years3 = 1956–1958
| coach_team3 = Bluefield State (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1959–1961
| coach_team4 = Bluefield State
| coach_years5 = 1962–1968
| coach_team5 = Howard
| coach_years6 = 1970–1972
| coach_team6 = Howard
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1948–1956
| coach_team8 = Christiansburg Institute
| coach_years9 = 1956–1958
| coach_team9 = Bluefield State (assistant)
| coach_sport10 = Baseball
| coach_years11 = 1949–1955
| coach_team11 = Christiansburg Institute
| coach_years12 = 1967
| coach_team12 = Howard
| admin_years1 = 1959–1961
| admin_team1 = Bluefield State
| overall_record = 53–58–1 (college football)
5–9 (college baseball)
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Tillman R. Sease Sr. (September 6, 1916 – September 2, 1988){{cite web|url=https://www.fold3.com/record/19414585-tilliman-r-sease?terms=Sease|title=Tilliman R Sease|access-date=August 1, 2020}} was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Bluefield State College in Bluefield, West Virginia from 1959 to 1961 and Howard University in Washington, D.C. from 1962 to 1968 and from 1970 to 1972, compiling a career college football coaching record of 53–58–1.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fkje44kbjaAC|title=Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967|first=Rayford W.|last=Logan|year=1969|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814702635|access-date=January 7, 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/09/05/tillman-sease-former-howard-coach-dies/2adbe31b-b96b-44fe-8eb3-6e0b614325aa/|title=Tillman Sease, Former Howard Coach, Dies |author= |newspaper=Washington Post |date=September 5, 1988 |access-date=January 6, 2020}} He was also Howard's head baseball coach.
A native of York, Pennsylvania, Sease graduated from Bluefield State in 1948 and later earned a master's degree in education from Columbia University. From 1948 to 1956, he was the athletic director at Christiansburg Institute in Christiansburg, Virginia, where he also coached football, basketball, and baseball. Sease returned to Bluefield State in 1956, where he worked as an assistant football and basketball coach under Sam B. Taylor for three years. He was appointed athletic director at Bluefield State in 1959.{{cite news |author= |title=Native Yorker Gets Top Sports Post At Bluefield |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41916376/the_york_dispatch/ |newspaper=The York Dispatch |location=York, Pennsylvania |date=June 3, 1959 |page=22 |access-date=January 8, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=College football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Bluefield State Big Blues
| conf = Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1959
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1959
| name = Bluefield State
| overall = 3–6
| conference = 1–4
| confstanding = 16th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Bluefield State Big Blues
| conf =
| startyear = 1969
| endyear = 1961
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1960
| name = Bluefield State
| overall = 3–5
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1961
| name = Bluefield State
| overall = 3–3–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Bluefield State
| overall = 9–14–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Howard Bison
| conf = Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1962
| endyear = 1968
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1962
| name = Howard
| overall = 1–8
| conference = 0–6
| confstanding = 18th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1963
| name = Howard
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 1–4
| confstanding = 15th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1964
| name = Howard
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 4–1
| confstanding = 3rd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1965
| name = Howard
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = 10th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1966
| name = Howard
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = 12th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1967
| name = Howard
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = 12th
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1968
| name = Howard
| overall = 3–5
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = 9th
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Howard Bison
| conf = Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1970
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1970
| name = Howard
| overall = 7–2
| conference = 3–2
| confstanding = 4th
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Howard Bison
| conf = Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1971
| endyear = 1972
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1971
| name = Howard
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = T–6th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1972
| name = Howard
| overall = 6–4
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = T–5th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Howard
| overall = 44–44
| confrecord = 19–34
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 53–58–1
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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{{Bluefield State Big Blues football coach navbox}}
{{Howard Bison football coach navbox}}
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Category:Bluefield State Big Blues athletic directors
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Category:Bluefield State Big Blues men's basketball coaches
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Category:Bluefield State College alumni
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Category:Sportspeople from York, Pennsylvania
Category:African-American coaches of American football
Category:African-American college athletic directors in the United States