Vincent E. Montgomery (May 6, 1890 – November 12, 1945) was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota from 1916 to 1922, the University of South Dakota from 1927 to 1930, and Southern State Normal School—later known as University of South Dakota–Springfield—from 1933 to 1942.[1] Montgomery was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota from 1923 to 1927 and the school's head track coach from 1923 to 1931.[2][3]
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 6, 1890 Newell, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | November 12, 1945 (aged 55) near Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Morningside (1913) |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1909–1912 | Morningside |
| Track and field | |
| 1909–1913 | Morningside |
| Position(s) | Quarterback (football) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1913 | Ida Grove HS (IA) |
| 1914–1915 | Newton HS (IA) |
| 1916–1922 | Yankton |
| 1927–1930 | South Dakota |
| 1933–1942 | Southern Normal |
| Basketball | |
| 1923–1927 | South Dakota |
| Track and field | |
| 1913–1914 | Ida Grove HS (IA) |
| 1923–1931 | South Dakota |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1916–1923 | Yankton |
| 1927–1930 | South Dakota |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 54–52–5 (college football) 33–35 (college basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 1 SDIC (1920) 1 NCC (1927) | |
Montgomery was born on May 6, 1890, in Newell, Iowa. He moved with his family in 1902 to Sioux City, Iowa, where he attended Sioux City High School and graduated from Morningside Academy in 1909. He then played college football and ran track at Morningside College, also in Sioux City, from which he graduated in 1913. He played quarterback on the football team and was captain of the track team in the spring of 1913.
Montgomery began his coaching career in the fall of 1913 as football and track coach at Ida Grove High School in Ida Grove, Iowa.[4]
served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was killed in a crash of a military aircraft, on November 12, 1945, near Mountain View, Arkansas.[5][6]
Head coaching record
editCollege football
edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yankton Greyhounds (Independent) (1916) | |||||||||
| 1916 | Yankton | 3–4 | |||||||
| Yankton Greyhounds (South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference) (1917–1922) | |||||||||
| 1917 | Yankton | 5–0–1 | |||||||
| 1918 | Yankton | 0–1 | |||||||
| 1919 | Yankton | 6–1 | |||||||
| 1920 | Yankton | 5–1–2 | 4–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1921 | Yankton | 3–4 | 1–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1922 | Yankton | 6–2 | 4–1 | 3rd | |||||
| Yankton: | 28–13–3 | ||||||||
| South Dakota Coyotes (North Central Conference) (1927–1930) | |||||||||
| 1927 | South Dakota | 7–2 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1928 | South Dakota | 3–5 | 1–3 | 5th | |||||
| 1929 | South Dakota | 4–4–1 | 0–3–1 | 5th | |||||
| 1930 | South Dakota | 1–5–2 | 0–4 | 5th | |||||
| South Dakota: | 15–16–3 | 6–10–1 | |||||||
| Southern Normal Pointers (South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference) (1933–1942) | |||||||||
| 1933 | Southern Normal | 3–5 | 2–4 | 7th | |||||
| 1934 | Southern Normal | 1–3–2 | 1–3–1 | 7th | |||||
| 1935 | Southern Normal | 3–3 | 3–2 | 4th | |||||
| 1936 | Southern Normal | 5–2 | 2–2 | 6th | |||||
| 1937 | Southern Normal | 5–3 | 4–1 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1938 | Southern Normal | 4–2 | 3–2 | 4th | |||||
| 1939 | Southern Normal | 2–5 | 1–4 | 9th | |||||
| 1940 | Southern Normal | 0–8 | 0–4 | 5th | |||||
| 1941 | Southern Normal | 2–4 | 1–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1942 | Southern Normal | 1–4 | |||||||
| Southern Normal: | 26–39–2 | ||||||||
| Total: | 54–52–5 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
edit- ^ "2017 Media Supplement". South Dakota Coyotes football. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "Montgomery To S. D. University". Sioux City Sunday Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. April 8, 1923. p. 18. Retrieved July 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com
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- ^ "Men's Basketball Media Guide". South Dakota Coyotes men's basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "Montgomery Will Coach Ida Grove". The Omaha Evening Bee. Omaha, Nebraska. May 17, 1913. p. 2. Retrieved July 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Maj. Vincent Montgomery Killed In Bomber Cash". Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. November 14, 1945. p. 1. Retrieved July 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Montgomery (continued)". Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. November 14, 1945. p. 11. Retrieved July 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
