Pittsburg State University
Ray Courtright was an employee for whom between Dec 1915 and Mar 1916?
Ray Courtright Raymond O . Courtright ( September 19 , 1891 – August 1979 ) was an American football , basketball , and baseball player , coach of football , basketball , golf , and wrestling , and college athletics administrator . Courtright attended the University of Oklahoma where he played halfback for the football team from 1911 to 1913 and also competed in baseball , basketball and track . He was the head football coach at Pittsburg State University ( 1915–1917 ) , the University of Nevada , Reno ( 1919–1923 ) , and Colorado School of Mines ( 1924–1926 ) . Courtright was also an assistant football coach ( 1927–1936 ) , head golf coach ( 1929–1944 ) and head wrestling coach ( 1942–1944 ) at the University of Michigan . University of Oklahoma . Courtright was a multi-sport athlete at the University of Oklahoma competing in football , baseball , basketball and track . He played halfback for Bennie Owens Oklahoma Sooners football team from 1911 to 1913 . In November 1911 , he helped Oklahoma break a nine-game losing streak to Kansas with a long run that set up a field goal for the games only points in a 3–0 win . He was also reported to be one of the Sooner stars in a 14–6 win over Missouri in 1911 . In November 1912 , he scored all six of the Sooners points on two field goals in the fourth quarter of a 6–5 win over Kansas . One Oklahoma newspaper noted:Oklahoma owes her victory to the educated toe of Raymond Courtright , who left a sick bed that he might give his team the advantage of his kicking in a pinch . For ten days he has not been in a football suit until Saturday . And as a senior in 1913 , he scored one of the Sooners two touchdowns in a 14–3 win over Colorado in a game played in five inches of mud in front of a crowd of 5,000 at Oklahoma City . He was reportedly selected as an All-Southwestern halfback for three consecutive years . In 1919 , one sports writer noted that Courtright was considered the best halfback ever developed at Oklahoma . Courtright was also a pitcher for Oklahomas baseball team . He once pitched a no-hitter against Missouri , and on another occasion he pitched 20 innings in a 1–1 game against Oklahoma A&M . He also received varsity letters for basketball and track ( as a hurdler ) . He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oklahoma in 1914 . Early years as coach . After graduating from Oklahoma , Courtright started his coaching career either at Oklahoma Preparatory , or at Atlanta Union Preparatory School . In 1915 , he was hired by Kansas State Normal School at Pittsburg ( now known as Pittsburg State University ) . He served as the head football coach at Pittsburg for three seasons from 1915 to 1917 , compiling a record of 15–11–2 . Courtright also served as the athletic director at Pittsburg . University of Nevada , Reno . In April 1919 , Courtright was hired by the University of Nevada , Reno as its director of athletics and head coach of the football , basketball , baseball and track teams . Courtright was Nevadas football coach for five years from 1919 to 1923 . During his years at Nevada , Courtright was affectionately known as Corky . In his first year as Nevadas coach , Courtright led the team to an 8–1–1 record , doubling the highest season win total of any prior Nevada football team . The only loss came in the first game of the season , a 13–7 loss to the California freshman team . Courtrights 1919 Nevada team outscored its opponents 450 to 32 , including scores of 132–0 over Pacific , 102–0 over the Mare Island Marines , and 56–0 over UC Davis . At the time , Courtright called the 1919 Nevada team the best team I ever had , and others called it the best team that ever played on Mackay Field . At the end of the 1919 season , the Reno Evening Gazette wrote:It was a good move when the students and regents decided last spring to go east and get one of the best men to come to Nevada and build up a football team . In selecting a coach they also demanded an all-round man , who could coach basket ball , track , baseball and put into operation a regular system of physical culture for all the students as well . Coach Courtright fitted the requirements and the football season proves the wisdom of the selection .. . In 1920 , Courtrights team finished with a record of 7–3–1 with wins over both the Utah Utes ( 14–7 ) and Utah State Aggies ( 21–0 ) , and losses to California ( 79–7 ) , USC ( 38–7 ) , and Santa Clara ( 27–21 ) . Courtright never reached the same level of success after the 1920 season , finishing 4–3–1 in 1921 , 5–3–1 in 1922 and 2–3–3 in 1923 . However , his most notable game at Nevada was a scoreless tie with California on November 3 , 1923 . The 1923 California team was known as the Wonder Team . It had gone through three full seasons without a loss , and had outscored its opponents 151 to 0 in the first seven games of the 1923 season . Nevada had only 15 men on its football team in 1923 and was considered to be a decided underdog . When Courtright returned to the Nevada campus in 1961 , he was shown souvenirs of his time at the school . Ty Cobb , then a sports columnist , accompanied Courtright and wrote : Courtright chuckled when he saw a huge framed layout of newspaper headlines from 1923 -- when Nevada tied the great California Wonder Team . Yep , that WAS quite a game , he chortled . Courtright compiled a record of 26–13–7 while at Nevada , and his teams outscored opponents by a combined total of 993 to 464 . Shortly before his resignation in 1924 , the Nevada State Journal credited Courtright with having brought the Nevada eleven from the class of a second rate team to its present rank among the best of the western college football squads . Courtright was also the head basketball coach at Nevada and led the basketball team to championships of the California-Nevada Basketball League in both 1920 and 1921 . Courtrights teams finished with records of 6–2 and 10–3 in 1920 and 1921 , but suffered losing seasons in 1922 and 1923 . In four seasons as Nevadas basketball coach , Courtright compiled a record of 25 wins and 29 losses . Colorado School of Mines . In March 1924 , Courtright was hired away from Nevada by the Colorado School of Mines in Golden , Colorado . At the time , the School of Mines had an enrollment of 450 students . Courtright was given a three-year contract at an advanced salary with a promise of a raise after the first season . Courtright stated that he regretted leaving Nevada but could not turn down the offer made by the Colorado school . He was the head football coach at the Colorado School of Mines from 1924 to 1926 and compiled a record of 7–17–1 . University of Michigan . In September 1927 , Courtright was hired as an assistant football coach at the University of Michigan . He served in that capacity from 1927 to 1936 . Courtright was also the head golf coach at Michigan from 1929 to 1944 . His teams won two NCAA National Championships ( 1934–1935 ) , and he coached two NCAA individual champions , Johnny Fischer ( 1932 ) and Chuck Kocsis ( 1936 ) . His 1943 Michigan golf team was also the runner up in the NCAA National Championship . In 1942 , he was also appointed as the head coach of Michigans wrestling team while regular coach Cliff Keen was serving in the military . In addition to the NCAA golf championship , Courtrights teams won eight Big Ten Conference golf championships and one Big Ten wrestling championship . In August 1944 , Courtright reported that he had received notice from the University of Michigan that his coaching position was being terminated , effective November 1 , 1944 , for economic reasons . Fresno State . In May 1946 , Courtright was hired by Fresno State College ( now known as California State University , Fresno ) as an assistant football coach . Fresno States head football coach , Jimmy Bradshaw , had been Courtrights top ground gainer when Courtright was the head coach at Nevada . The Fresno State Bulldogs finished with an 8–4 record in 1946 .