Ray Courtright
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Ray Courtright, University of Michigan golf coach, 1934
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball, golf, wrestling, track and field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | September 19, 1891 |
| Died | August 1979 |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1911–1913 | Oklahoma |
| Basketball | |
| 1912–1913 | Oklahoma |
| Baseball | |
| 1911–1914 | Oklahoma |
| Position(s) |
Halfback (football) Pitcher (baseball) Hurdler (track) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1915–1917 | Pittsburg State |
| 1919–1923 | Nevada |
| 1924–1926 | Colorado Mines |
| 1927–1936 | Michigan (assistant) |
| 1946 | Fresno State (assistant) |
| Basketball | |
| 1919–1923 | Nevada |
| Golf | |
| 1929–1944 | Michigan |
| Wrestling | |
| 1942–1944 | Michigan |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 48–41–10 (football) 25–29 (basketball) |
Raymond O. "Ray" Courtright (September 19, 1891 – August 1979) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach of football, basketball, golf, and wrestling, and college athletics administrator. Courtright attended the University of Oklahoma where he played halfback for the football team from 1911 to 1913 and also competed in baseball, basketball and track. He was the head football coach at Pittsburg State University (1915–1917), the University of Nevada, Reno (1919–1923), and Colorado School of Mines (1924–1926). Courtright was also an assistant football coach (1927–1936), head golf coach (1929–1944) and head wrestling coach (1942–1944) at the University of Michigan.
Courtright was a multi-sport athlete at the University of Oklahoma competing in football, baseball, basketball and track. He played halfback for Bennie Owen's Oklahoma Sooners football team from 1911 to 1913. In November 1911, he helped Oklahoma break a nine-game losing streak to Kansas with a long run that set up a field goal for the game's only points in a 3–0 win. He was also reported to be one of the "Sooner stars" in a 14–6 win over Missouri in 1911. In November 1912, he scored all six of the Sooners' points on two field goals in the fourth quarter of a 6–5 win over Kansas. One Oklahoma newspaper noted:
"Oklahoma owes her victory to the educated toe of Raymond Courtright, who left a sick bed that he might give his team the advantage of his kicking in a pinch. For ten days he has not been in a football suit until Saturday."
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