Garland Morrow
Garland Augustus Morrow (February 14, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was an American college football and basketball player and coach. He was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, and played football as a guard for Vanderbilt in 1919–1920 and basketball as a guard from 1918 to 1922, also competing on the track team. He started for Vanderbilt in the scoreless opening game against Michigan at Dudley Field in 1922.
As a coach, Morrow was an assistant football coach at Vanderbilt from 1927 to 1932 and the head basketball coach there from 1929 to 1931. He then coached at Cumberland College (now Cumberland University) in Lebanon, Tennessee from 1932 to 1935, leading Cumberland to a Smoky Mountain Conference football title in 1935 and coaching Cumberland basketball. In the 1930s he also coached the freshmen football team at the University of Cincinnati.
Morrow returned to Vanderbilt as the head basketball coach from 1944 to 1946. He was elected to Cumberland’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1978. Later in life, he moved from Abilene, Texas to Mineola, Texas in 1980. He died on November 4, 1987, in Grand Saline, Texas.
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