caption death_date death_place coach_years overall_record coach_team coach_sport cfbdwid sport birth_date image article_title name
gorton vmi yearbook pictured in '' the bomb 1915 '' , march 20 , 1939 -lrb- aged 62 -rrb- lexington , virginia 1906 1934 1906 -- 1908 1914 -- 1917 1917 -- 1918 -- 1907 1907 1908 -- 1910 1914 -- 1916 22 -- 30 -lrb- basketball -rrb- -- 18 -- 4 -lrb- football -rrb- 34 rutgers -rrb- rutgers vmi otterbein rutgers occidental vmi rochester -lrb- ny -rrb- -lrb- assistant football basketball baseball 892 football , basketball , baseball , track and field c. 1876 frank gorton.jpg frank gorton
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frank gorton

frank h. gorton -lrb- c. 1876 -- march 20 , 1939 -rrb- 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 and at the virginia military institute from 1914 to 1916 , compiling a career college football record of 22 -- 18 -- 4 .
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 died at the age of 62 of a heart attack in lexington , virginia on march 20 , 1939 .
