Biographical details | |
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Born | Brookneal, Virginia, U.S. | February 12, 1900
Died | March 24, 1989 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 89)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1918 | Lincoln (PA) |
1919–1920 | Howard |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1925–1928 | Virginia Seminary |
1929–1959 | Morgan State |
Basketball | |
1929–1947 | Morgan State |
Track | |
1929–1970 | Morgan State |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1958–1970 | Morgan State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 188–64–24 (football) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 6 black college national (1933, 1937, 1943–1944, 1946, 1949) 14 CIAA (1930, 1932–1935, 1937, 1940–1944, 1946, 1949, 1956) Basketball 4 CIAA Track 18 CIAA | |
Edward Paulette Hurt (February 12, 1900 – March 24, 1989) was an American football, basketball, and track coach. He served the head football coach at Virginia Theological Seminary and College—now known as Virginia University of Lynchburg—in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1925 to 1928 and Morgan State College—now known as Morgan State University—in Baltimore, from 1929 to 1959. Hurt also had long tenures at the head basketball and head track coach at Morgan State. Across those three sports, his teams at Morgan State won 36 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) championships and produced two Pro Football Hall of Famers and an Olympic gold medal winner. Hurt's Morgan State Bears football teams won six 6 black college football national championships and 14 CIAA titles. Hurt also served as the school's athletic director from 1958 to 1970. He played college football at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Hurt was inducted into the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1975 and the HBCU Hall of Fame in 1978.[1][2]
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