Sport(s) | Football, baseball, basketball, track and field |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Berlin, New Hampshire |
July 24, 1874
Died | April 13, 1959 Salem, New Hampshire |
(aged 84)
Alma mater | Bowdoin College |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1898–1904 | Indiana |
Basketball | |
1900–1901 | Indiana |
Baseball | |
1899–1900 | Indiana |
Track and field | |
c. 1903 | Indiana |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1898–1905 | Indiana |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 33–21–5 (football) 1–4 (basketball) 10–8 (baseball) |
James Howard Horne (July 24, 1874 – April 13, 1959) was an athletic director and coach of American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field at Indiana University between 1898 and 1905.
Horne was born July 24, 1874 in Berlin, New Hampshire to John Roberts Horne and Sarah (Wheeler) Horne. Like his two older brothers, Irving Williams Horne and Rev. John Roberts Horne, Jr., James H. Horne attended Bowdoin College where he was a member of Delta Upsilon and involved in a number of extracurricular activities including football and track and field. Horne was a four-year member of the varsity athletic (track and field) team, serving as the team's captain his junior and senior years. In the first two years of what has become the annual "State Meet" between Bates College, Colby College, and Bowdoin, Horne won the 100 yard dash (1895, 1896), 120 yard high hurdles (1895, 1896), 220 yard dash (1895), 220 intermediate hurdles (1896), and long jump (1896). In 1896, his time of 16.2 seconds in the 110 hurdles was the fourth best time in the nation. Horne graduated from Bowdoin in 1897 with an A.B.
While at Bowdoin, Horne held the position of Assistant to the Director of the Gymnasium from 1895 to 1897. From 1897 to 1898, he was "in charge of [the] Gymnasium" at the Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine prior to succeeding Madison G. Gonterman as Indiana University's third Director of the Men's Gymnasium in 1898. However, Horne saw himself as more of a "Director of Athletics" for the school in that he "handled all the business of that line, making all schedules, looking up and hiring coaches, as well as all the business affairs connected with athletics." During Horne's tenure as athletic director, Indiana was admitted membership to the Big Ten Conference in December, 1899. He served as IU's director until 1905 and was succeeded by Zora G. Clevenger.