Homer H. Norton

Homer Norton
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Born	(1896-12-30)December 30, 1896 Carrollton, Alabama
Died	May 26, 1965(1965-05-26) (aged 68) College Station, Texas
Playing career
Baseball
1916–1919	Birmingham Barons
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919–1921	Centenary
1922–1925	Centenary (assistant)
1926–1933	Centenary
1934–1947	Texas A&M
Basketball
1921–1926	Centenary
Baseball
1924–1928	Centenary
1943–1944	Texas A&M
Head coaching record
Overall	143–75–18 (football) 49–43 (basketball) 62–37–1 (baseball)
Bowls	2–2–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 National (1939) 2 SIAA (1926–1927) 3 SWC (1939–1941)

College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1971 (profile)

Homer Hill Norton (December 30, 1896 – May 26, 1965) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1919 to 1921 and 1926 to 1933 and at Texas A&M University from 1934 to 1947, compiling a career college football record of 143–75–18. His 1939 Texas A&M team went 11–0, beating Tulane in the Sugar Bowl, and was named a national champion. Norton's record at Texas A&M was 82–53–9, giving him the second most wins of any coach in Texas A&M Aggies football history. He was fired in 1947 when his team went 3–6–1 and lost to Texas for the eighth straight year. Norton was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1971.

Norton played four different sports at Birmingham–Southern College and played minor league baseball with the Birmingham Barons prior to becoming a coach. In addition to football, Norton also coached basketball at Centenary from 1921 to 1926 and baseball at Texas A&M from 1943 to 1944.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AP^#
Centenary Gentlemen (Independent) (1919–1920)
1919	Centenary	1–3
1920	Centenary	0–1
Centenary Gentlemen (Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1921)
1921	Centenary	3–3
Centenary Gentlemen (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1926–1933)
1926	Centenary	6–3	5–0	1st
1927	Centenary	10–0	3–0	T–1st
1928	Centenary	6–3–2
1929	Centenary	6–3–1
1930	Centenary	8–1–1
1931	Centenary	5–5
1932	Centenary	8–0–1
1933	Centenary	8–0–4			T Dixie Classic
Centenary:		61–22–9
Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1934–1947)
1934	Texas A&M	2–7–2	1–4–1	6th
1935	Texas A&M	3–7	1–5	7th
1936	Texas A&M	8–3–1	3–2–1	T–3rd
1937	Texas A&M	5–2–2	2–2–2	5th
1938	Texas A&M	4–4–1	2–3–1	5th
1939	Texas A&M	11–0	6–0	1st	W Sugar	1
1940	Texas A&M	9–1	5–1	T–1st	W Cotton	6
1941	Texas A&M	9–2	5–1	1st	L Cotton	9
1942	Texas A&M	4–5–1	2–3–1	5th
1943	Texas A&M	7–2–1	4–1	2nd	L Orange
1944	Texas A&M	7–4	2–3	T–4th
1945	Texas A&M	6–4	3–3	T–3rd
1946	Texas A&M	4–6	3–3	4th
1947	Texas A&M	3–6–1	1–4–1	T–5th
Texas A&M:		82–53–9	40–35–7
Total:		143–75–18
National championship Conference title Conference division title
^#Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

External links

Homer H. Norton at the College Football Hall of Fame
Homer H. Norton at the College Football Data Warehouse

Centenary Gentlemen head football coaches

No coach (1894–1896) No team (1897–1907) Unknown (1908) James Hinton (1909) Unknown (1910–1914) No team (1915–1918) Homer H. Norton (1919–1921) Bo McMillin (1922–1924) Earl A. Davis (1925) Homer H. Norton (1926–1933) Curtis Parker (1934–1939) Jake Hanna (1940–1941) No team (1942–1946) Jess Thompson (1947)

Centenary Gentlemen basketball head coaches

Homer H. Norton (1921–1926)
George Hoy (1926–1927)
Curtis Parker (1927–1939)
Elmer Smith (1939–1942)
No team (1942–1945)
Clayton Cornish (1945–1946)
Jack Clayton (1946–1947)
Ab Young (1947–1948)
Glenn Smith (1948–1949)
F. H. Delaney (1949–1955)
Harold Mooty (1955–1958)
Orvis Sigler (1958–1968)
Joe Swank (1968–1971)
Larry Little (1971–1976)
Riley Wallace (1976–1978)
Tommy Canterbury (1978–1989)
Tommy Vardeman (1989–1997)
Billy Kennedy (1997–1999)
Kevin Johnson (1999–2005)
Rob Flaska (2005–2008)
Greg Gary (2008–2010)
Adam Walsh (2010– )

Texas A&M Aggies athletic directors

Joe Utay (1912–1913)
Homer H. Norton (1934–1947)
J. W. Rollins (1947)
Bill Carmichael (1947–1949)
Bear Bryant (1954–1957)
Jim Myers (1957–1962)
Hank Foldberg (1962–1965)
Barlow Irvin (1965–1968)
Gene Stallings (1968–1972)
Emory Bellard (1972–1978)
Marvin Tate (1978–1981)
Wally Groff (1981–1982)
Jackie Sherrill (1982–1988)
John David Crow (1988–1993)
Wally Groff (1993–2003)
Bill Byrne (2003–2012)
John Thornton # (2012)
Eric Hyman (2012–2016)
Scott Woodward (2016– )

Texas A&M Aggies head football coaches

F. D. Perkins (1894)
No team (1895)
A. M. Soule & H. W. South (1896)
C. W. Taylor (1897)
H. W. Williams (1898)
W. A. Murray (1899–1901)
J. E. Platt (1902–1904)
Walter E. Bachman (1905–1906)
L. L. Larson (1907)
N. A. Merriam (1908–1909)
Charley Moran (1909–1914)
Edwin Harlan (1915–1916)
Dana X. Bible (1917)
D. V. Graves (1918)
Dana X. Bible (1919–1928)
Matty Bell (1929–1933)
Homer H. Norton (1934–1947)
Harry Stiteler (1948–1950)
Raymond George (1951–1953)
Bear Bryant (1954–1957)
Jim Myers (1958–1961)
Hank Foldberg (1962–1964)
Gene Stallings (1965–1971)
Emory Bellard (1972–1978)
Tom Wilson (1978–1981)
Jackie Sherrill (1982–1988)
R. C. Slocum (1989–2002)
Dennis Franchione (2003–2007)
Gary Darnell # (2007)
Mike Sherman (2008–2011)
Tim DeRuyter # (2011)
Kevin Sumlin (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Texas A&M Aggies head baseball coaches

Wirt Spencer (1904–1908)
Charley Moran (1909–1914)
Con Lucid (1915)
D. V. Graves (1916–1919)
Dana X. Bible (1920–1921)
Gene Cochrehan (1922)
H. H. House (1923–1924)
Claude Rothgeb (1925–1927)
Bob Countryman (1928–1929)
Roswell G. Higginbotham (1930–1935)
Jules V. Sikes (1936–1937)
Marty Karow (1938–1941)
Lil Dimmit (1942)
Homer H. Norton (1943–1944)
A. E. Jones (1945)
Lil Dimmit (1946–1947)
Marty Karow (1948–1950)
Beau Bell (1951–1958)
Tom Chandler (1959–1984)
Mark Johnson (1985–2005)
Rob Childress (2006– )

1939 Texas A&M Aggies football—AP national champions

Felix Bucek John Kimbrough Ernie Pannell Cotton Price Marion Pugh Ed Robnett Marshall Robnett Cullen Rogers Martin Ruby Jim Thomason Head coach: Homer H. Norton Assistant coaches: Bill James Marty Karow

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