Fred J. Murphy

Not to be confused with Fred T. Murphy or Fred W. Murphy.

Fred J. Murphy
Biographical details
Murphy in 1914
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Born	(1886-02-04)February 4, 1886^[1] Southville, Massachusetts
Died	December 19, 1956(1956-12-19) (aged 70)^[2] Miami, Florida
Playing career
Football
1907–1909	Yale
Position(s)	Tackle
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1914–1918	Northwestern
1920–1922	Denver
1924–1926	Kentucky
Basketball
1912–1913	Manhattan
1914–1917	Northwestern
Baseball
1914–1916	Northwestern
1925–1926	Kentucky
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1913–1918	Northwestern
Head coaching record
Overall	40–37–4 (football) 36–45 (basketball) 20–31–2 (baseball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Frederick James Murphy (February 4, 1886 – December 19, 1956) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. Murphy served as the head football coach at Northwestern University (1914–1918), University of Denver (1920–1922), and University of Kentucky (1924–1926), compiling a career football coaching record of 40–37–4. He was also the head basketball coach at Manhattan College (1912–1913) and at Northwestern (1914–1917), and the head baseball coach at Northwestern (1914–1916) and Kentucky (1925–1926). In addition, Murphy served as Northwestern's athletic director from 1913 to 1918.

Coaching career

Northwestern

Murphy was the 12th head coach at Northwestern University and he held that position for five seasons, from 1914 until 1918. His coaching record at Northwestern was 16–16–1. This ranks him 11th at Northwestern in total wins and tenth at Northwestern in winning percentage.^[3]

University of Denver

Murphy returned to coaching in the 1920 season to coach at the University of Denver, a coaching position he held for three seasons until 1922. At Denver, he compiled a record of 12–7–2.^[4] His best season at Denver was 1922, when the team's record was 6–1–1,^[5] second only to his 6–1 season at Northwestern in 1916.^[6]

Kentucky

Murphy's next move was to become the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1924 to 1926. There he compiled a record of 12–14–1.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Northwestern Purple (Big Ten Conference) (1914–1918)
1914	Northwestern	1–6	0–6	9th
1915	Northwestern	2–5	0–5	9th
1916	Northwestern	6–1	4–1	2nd
1917	Northwestern	5–2	3–2	T–3rd
1918	Northwestern	2–2–1	1–1	6th
Northwestern:		16–16–1	8–15
Denver Pioneers (Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) (1920–1922)
1920	Denver	2–4	2–4	6th
1921	Denver	4–2–1	2–2–1	T–4th
1922	Denver	6–1–1	3–1–1	3rd
Denver:		12–7–2	7–6–2
Kentucky Wildcats (Southern Conference) (1924–1926)
1924	Kentucky	4–5	2–3	T–14th
1925	Kentucky	6–3	4–2	7th
1926	Kentucky	2–6–1	1–4–1	T–19th
Kentucky:		12–14–1	7–9–1
Total:		40–37–4

References

External links

Fred J. Murphy at the College Football Data Warehouse
Fred J. Murphy at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Manhattan Jaspers basketball head coaches

John O'Donnell (1904–1909)
Edward Hanrahan (1909–1912)
Fred J. Murphy (1912–1913)
Edward Hanrahan (1913–1920)
E. P. Winters (1920–1922)
Arthur T. Carroll (1922–1924)
Ward Brennan (1924–1925)
Arthur T. Carroll (1925–1926)
Chief Muller (1926–1928)
James Houlihan (1922–1924)
Neil Cohalan (1924–1942)
Joe Daher (1942–1943)
No team (1943–1945)
Honey Russell (1945–1946)
Ken Norton (1946–1968)
John Powers (1968–1978)
Brian Mahoney (1978–1981)
Gordon Chiesa (1981–1985)
Tom Sullivan (1985–1986)
Bob Delle Bovi (1986–1988)
Steve Lappas (1988–1992)
Fran Fraschilla (1992–1996)
John Leonard (1996–1999)
Bobby Gonzalez (1999–2006)
Barry Rohrssen (2006–2011)
Steve Masiello (2011– )

Northwestern Wildcats athletic directors

Otto Miller (1895–1896)
W. J. Bryan (1897–1898)
Charles M. Hollister (1898–1902)
Horace Butterworth (1903–1904)
F. O. Smith (1905–1906)
Louis Gillesby (1906–1910)
Charles Hammett (1910–1913)
Fred J. Murphy (1913–1918)
Charlie Bachman (1919–1920)
Dana Evans (1921–1924)
Kenneth L. Wilson (1925–1945)
Ted Payseur (1945–1956)
Stu Holcomb (1956–1966)
Tippy Dye (1967–1974)
John Pont (1975–1980)
Doug Single (1981–1987)
Bruce Corrie (1987–1993)
Bill Foster (1993–1994)
Rick Taylor (1994–2003)
Mark Murphy (2003–2008)
James J. Phillips (2008– )

Northwestern Wildcats head baseball coaches

No coach (1871–1872)
No team (1873)
No coach (1874–1880)
No team (1881)
No coach (1882–1887)
Billy Sunday (1888)
No coach (1889–1893)
John Kedzie (1894–1897)
W. J. Bryan (1898–1902)
Horace Butterworth (1903)
Harry Fleager (1904–1905)
Charles Hollister (1906)
A. B. Cunningham (1907–1908)
A. G. Rundle (1909–1911)
Ted Green (1910)
L. C. Holsinger (1911–1912)
Dennis Grady (1913)
Fred J. Murphy (1914–1916)
Willie McGill (1917)
No coach (1918–1920)
Jack Sawtelle (1921)
Henry Symanski (1922)
Maury Kent (1923–1928)
Paul Stewart (1929–1935)
Burt Ingwersen (1936–1939)
Stan Klores (1940–1941)
Maury Kent (1942–1943)
Wesley Fry (1944–1946)
Don Heap (1947–1948)
Freddie Lindstrom (1949–1961)
George McKinnon (1962–1981)
Ron Wellman (1982–1986)
Larry Cochell (1987)
Paul Stevens (1988–2015)
Spencer Allen (2016– )

Northwestern Wildcats head football coaches

Paul Noyes (1893)
A. A. Ewing (1894)
Alvin H. Culver (1895–1896)
Jesse Van Doozer (1897)
W. H. Bannard (1898)
Charles M. Hollister (1899–1902)
Walter McCornack (1903–1905)
Alton Johnson (1908)
Bill Horr (1909)
Charles Hammett (1910–1912)
Dennis Grady (1913)
Fred J. Murphy (1914–1918)
Charlie Bachman (1919)
Elmer McDevitt (1920–1921)
Glenn Thistlethwaite (1922–1926)
Dick Hanley (1927–1934)
Pappy Waldorf (1935–1946)
Bob Voigts (1947–1954)
Lou Saban (1955)
Ara Parseghian (1956–1963)
Alex Agase (1964–1972)
John Pont (1973–1977)
Rick Venturi (1978–1980)
Dennis Green (1981–1985)
Francis Peay (1986–1991)
Gary Barnett (1992–1998)
Randy Walker (1999–2005)
Pat Fitzgerald (2006– )

Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball head coaches

Tom Holland (1904–1905)
No team (1905–1906)
Louis Gillesby (1906–1910)
Stuart Templeton (1910–1911)
Charles Hammett (1911–1912)
Dennis Grady (1912–1914)
Fred J. Murphy (1914–1917)
Norman Elliott (1917–1918)
Tom Robinson (1918–1919)
Norman Elliott (1919–1920)
Ray Elder (1920–1921)
Dana Evans (1921–1922)
Maury Kent (1922–1927)
Dutch Lonborg (1927–1950)
Harold Olsen (1950–1952)
Waldo A. Fisher (1952–1957)
Bill Rohr (1957–1963)
Larry Glass (1963–1969)
Brad Snyder (1969–1973)
Tex Winter (1973–1978)
Rich Falk (1978–1986)
Bill Foster (1986–1993)
Ricky Byrdsong (1993–1997)
Kevin O'Neill (1997–2000)
Bill Carmody (2000–2013)
Chris Collins (2013– )

Denver Pioneers head football coaches

No coach (1888–1889)
No team (1890)
No coach (1891–1900)
Leland (1901)
Ben Griffith (1902–1903)
Ora Smith Fowler (1904–1905)
John P. Koehler (1906–1910)
Thomas A. Barry (1911)
Clem Crowley (1912)
Charles Wingender (1913)
Harry G. Buckingham (1914)
John Fike (1915–1918)
George Koonsman (1919)
Fred J. Murphy (1920–1922)
Elmer McDevitt (1923–1924)
Fred Dawson (1925–1928)
Jeff Cravath (1929–1931)
Percy Locey (1932–1935)
Bill Saunders (1936–1938)
Cac Hubbard (1939–1941)
Ellison E. Ketchum (1942)
Mark Duncan (1943)
Cac Hubbard & Adam Esslinger (1944)
Cac Hubbard (1945–1947)
Johnny Baker (1948–1952)
Bob Blackman (1953–1954)
John Roning (1955–1960)

Kentucky Wildcats head football coaches

A. M. Miller (1892)
John Thompson (1893)
W. P. Finney (1894)
Charles B. Mason (1895)
Dudley Short (1896)
Lyman Eaton (1897)
W. R. Bass (1898–1899)
W. H. Kiler (1900–1901)
E. W. McLeod (1902)
Jack Wright (1903)
Fred Schacht (1904–1905)
J. White Guyn (1906–1908)
Edwin Sweetland (1909–1910)
Prentiss Douglass (1911)
Edwin Sweetland (1912)
Alpha Brummage (1913–1914)
John J. Tigert (1915–1916)
Stanley A. Boles (1917)
Andrew Gill (1918–1919)
William Juneau (1920–1922)
Jack Winn (1923)
Fred J. Murphy (1924–1926)
Harry Gamage (1927–1933)
Chet A. Wynne (1934–1937)
A. D. Kirwan (1938–1942)
No team (1943)
A. D. Kirwan (1944)
Bernie Shively (1945)
Bear Bryant (1946–1953)
Blanton Collier (1954–1961)
Charlie Bradshaw (1962–1968)
John Ray (1969–1972)
Fran Curci (1973–1981)
Jerry Claiborne (1982–1989)
Bill Curry (1990–1996)
Hal Mumme (1997–2000)
Guy Morriss (2001–2002)
Rich Brooks (2003–2009)
Joker Phillips (2010–2012 )
Mark Stoops (2013– )

Kentucky Wildcats head baseball coaches

Unknown (1896–1897)
No team (1898–1902)
G. L. Byroade (1903)
A. A. Gordon (1904)
W. C. Kelly (1905)
H. E. Reed (1906)
F. C. Paullin (1907)
C. M. Leaphart (1908)
Unknown (1909–1910)
Frank Engel (1911–1913)
Alpha Brummage (1914–1915)
Bill Tuttle (1916)
J. B. Fledge (1917)
No team (1918)
Unknown (1919)
Andrew Gill (1920–1921)
Jim Park (1922)
C. E. Barger (1923–1924)
Fred J. Murphy (1925–1926)
John Devereaux (1927)
Fred Major (1928)
John Devereaux (1929–1931)
No team (1932–1933)
John Devereaux (1934)
No team (1935–1938)
Frank Moseley (1939–1941)
Bill Black (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Frank Moseley (1946)
Harry Lancaster (1947)
Frank Moseley (1948–1950)
Harry Lancaster (1951–1965)
J. R. Shannon (1966–1969)
Dick Parsons (1970–1972)
Jordan E. Horne (1973–1978)
Keith Madison (1979–2003)
John Cohen (2004–2008)
Gary Henderson (2009– )

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