Stephen Grover O'Rourke (April 26, 1887 – September 22, 1944) was an American football and basketball coach and Major League Baseball (MLB) scout. He served as the head football coach at Little Rock College in Little Rock, Arkansas from 1908 to 1910, the College of St. Thomas—now known as the University of St. Thomas—in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1914 to 1915, St. Mary's College—now known as Saint Mary's Academy and College—in St. Marys, Kansas from 1915 to 1920 and again from 1934 to 1928, and Saint Louis University from 1931 to 1922.[1]
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 13, 1893 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 22, 1944 (aged 51) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1907 | Holy Cross |
| Basketball | |
| 1907–1908 | Holy Cross |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1908–1910 | Little Rock |
| 1913–1914 | St. Thomas (MN) |
| 1915–1920 | St. Mary's (KS) |
| 1921–1922 | Saint Louis |
| 1923–1928 | St. Mary's (KS) |
| Basketball | |
| 1921–1922 | Saint Louis |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1915–? | St. Mary's (KS) |
| 1920?–193? | Detroit Tigers (scout) |
| 1939–1944 | New York Yankees (scout) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 70–54–8 (football) |
O'Rourke became a scout for the Detroit Tigers in the 1920s and the New York Yankees in 1939. He died from a lingering heart ailment on September 22, 1944, at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver.[2]
Head coaching record
editFootball
edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Rock Eagles (Independent) (1908–1910) | |||||||||
| 1908 | Little Rock | 0–1 | |||||||
| 1909 | Little Rock | 4–1 | |||||||
| 1910 | Little Rock | 2–5–1 | |||||||
| Little Rock: | 6–7–1 | ||||||||
| St. Thomas Cadets (Independent) (1913–1914) | |||||||||
| 1913 | St. Thomas | 4–0 | |||||||
| 1914 | St. Thomas | 7–2 | |||||||
| St. Thomas: | 11–2 | ||||||||
| St. Mary's Knights (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1915–1920) | |||||||||
| 1915 | St. Mary's | 3–5 | 1–4 | 13th | |||||
| 1916 | St. Mary's | 4–3–1 | 2–3–1 | 10th | |||||
| 1917 | St. Mary's | 6–3 | 4–2 | T–4th | |||||
| 1918 | St. Mary's | 1–1 | |||||||
| 1919 | St. Mary's | 6–2 | 3–2 | T–5th | |||||
| 1920 | St. Mary's | 6–2 | 4–2 | 4th | |||||
| Saint Louis Billikens (Independent) (1921–1922) | |||||||||
| 1921 | Saint Louis | 4–4–1 | |||||||
| 1922 | Saint Louis | 6–3–1 | |||||||
| Saint Louis: | 10–7–2 | ||||||||
| St. Mary's Knights (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1923–1928) | |||||||||
| 1923 | St. Mary's | 4–4 | 3–4 | 11th | |||||
| 1924 | St. Mary's | 3–4 | 2–4 | 13th | |||||
| 1925 | St. Mary's | 4–3–1 | 3–3–1 | T–8th | |||||
| 1926 | St. Mary's | 2–5 | 2–5 | T–12th | |||||
| 1927 | St. Mary's | 4–3 | 4–3 | 8th | |||||
| 1928 | St. Mary's | 2–3–3 | 2–2–3 | 6th | |||||
| St. Marys: | 43–38–5 | ||||||||
| Total: | 70–54–8 | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Who's Who in American Sports. National Biographical Society. 1928. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ "Yankee Scout Passes Away". San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. International News Service. September 24, 1944. p. 19. Retrieved December 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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