D. V. Graves

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Dorsett Vandeventer "Tubby" Graves (November 27, 1886 – January 16, 1960) was an American college head coach in baseball, football, and basketball, and a player of football and baseball.[1][2]

A head coach in three sports, Graves was primarily a baseball coach, and led three college programs for a total of 32 seasons. He began at the University of Alabama for four seasons (1912–1915), spent another four at Texas A&M University (1916–1919), and finished with 24 seasons the University of Washington (1923–1946).

In the sport of football, he was a college head coach for seven seasons: at Alabama (1911–1914), Texas A&M (1918), and the Agricultural College of the State of Montana—now Montana State University (1920–1921), compiling a career record of 32–18–4. In basketball, he served as a head coach for six years: at Alabama (1912–1915), Texas A&M (1915–1916), and Montana Agricultural (1920–1922). At Washington, he was a longtime assistant coach in football and basketball, and later an assistant athletic director.

In the summer of 1912, Graves was the manager of the La Junta Railroaders, a minor league baseball team in La Junta, Colorado of the short-lived Rocky Mountain League.[3][4]

Early years

Born in Missouri, Graves was one of ten children of a doctor, and his two given names were surnames of two physicians.[1] He played college football at Missouri from 1906 to 1908, and after his eligibility was used up in the Midwest, he moved to the Northwest and played at Idaho on the Palouse for a season in 1909.[5][6] After college, Graves played baseball in the minor leagues.[1]

Coaching career

Baseball

Graves was the head coach at Alabama, Texas A&M, and Washington, where he led the Huskies in Seattle for 24 seasons (1923–1946). Graves had a long-standing amicable rivalry with Buck Bailey of Washington State,[7][8][9] whom he coached in baseball and football at Texas A&M.[10]

Football

After several years of playing baseball in the minors, he coached football at Alabama, Texas A&M, and what is now Montana State.[1] From 1911 to 1914, he led the Alabama program to a 21–12–3 record. In his only season at Texas A&M in 1918, he compiled a 6–1 record. He then served as an assistant coach at Texas A&M in 1919 under head coach Dana X. Bible.[11] At Montana Agricultural in Bozeman, he had a 5–5–1 record over two seasons. While head coach of the baseball team at Washington, Graves also served as an assistant coach in football to several coaches.[12]

Basketball

Graves was a head basketball coach for six seasons, the first three at Alabama, where he was the program's first coach and compiled a record of 20–12 (Template:Winning percentage) from 1912 to 1915.[13] He later headed the Texas A&M program for a season and two at Montana Agricultural. At Washington, he was an assistant coach for 24 seasons under head coach Hec Edmundson. Graves had met Edmundson at Idaho when they were undergraduate athletes, and both were head coaches at Texas A&M in the spring of 1919, Edmundson in track and Graves in baseball.[1]

After coaching

After stepping down as baseball coach at Washington, Graves became an assistant athletic director at the university, where he remained until his death.[2] He was also involved with horse racing in the state as a race steward at Longacres in Renton and Playfair Race Course in Spokane.[9][14][15][16]

Death

While visiting Pullman in the spring of 1959, Graves fell and broke a hip.[8][17] That December, he was hospitalized in Seattle for treatment of a liver ailment and died several weeks later in January 1960 at age 73.[1][2] He is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Seattle, about a mile (1.6 km) northeast of the university.

The UW athletic office building (1964)[7][18] and the two former baseball fields (through 1997) were named for Graves; he was posthumously inducted into the Big W Club, the UW athletics hall of fame, in 1980.[19]

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Alabama Crimson Tide (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1911–1914)
1911 Alabama 5–2–2 2–2–2
1912 Alabama 5–3–1 3–3–1
1913 Alabama 6–3 4–3
1914 Alabama 5–4 4–3
Alabama: 21–12–3 13–11–3
Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1918)
1918 Texas A&M 6–1 1–1 T–3rd
Texas A&M: 6–1 1–1
Montana Agricultural Bobcats (Rocky Mountain Conference) (1920–1921)
1920 Montana State 3–1–1
1921 Montana State 2–4
Montana Agricultural: 5–5–1
Total: 32–18–4

College baseball

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason

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1912 Alabama 16–6
1913 Alabama 22–7
1914 Alabama 11–13
1915 Alabama 17–14–1
Alabama: 66–30–1 (Template:Winning percentage)

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1916 Texas A&M 17–8 8–7 3rd
1917 Texas A&M 9–5–3 2–4 3rd
1918 Texas A&M 14–5 4–4 2nd
1919 Texas A&M 8–6 4–4 2nd
Texas A&M: 48–24–3 (Template:Winning percentage) 18–19 (Template:Winning percentage)

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1923 Washington 16–4 8–1 1st (North)
1924 Washington 15–6–1 10–5–1 2nd
1925 Washington 11–2 8–2 1st (North)
1926 Washington 8–3 8–3 1st (North)
1927 Washington 7–7 5–4 4th (North)
1928 Washington 6–4 4–4 4th (North)
1929 Washington 12–7 9–6 1st (North)
1930 Washington 10–3 10–3 1st (North)
1931 Washington 13–3 13–3 1st (North)
1932 Washington 15–4 13–4 1st (North)
1933 Washington 7–3 3–3 T–2nd (North)
1934 Washington 8–8 6–8 4th (North)
1935 Washington 13–13–1 10–6 2nd (North)
1936 Washington 15–10 9–7 T–2nd (North)
1937 Washington 7–7 7–7 3rd (North)
1938 Washington 7–15–1 4–12 5th (North)
1939 Washington 9–12 6–10 4th (North)
1940 Washington 7–13 4–11 5th (North)
1941 Washington 10–6 10–6 2nd (North)
1942 Washington 8–8 8–8 2nd (North)
1943 Washington 10–7 8–7 3rd (North)
1944 Washington 5–5–1 Independent
1945 Washington 4–9 2–2 2nd (North)
1946 Washington 11–7 8–8 3rd (North)
Washington: 234–131–4 (Template:Winning percentage)
Total: 348–185–8 (Template:Winning percentage)

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      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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