Alexander Brown Mackie
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
May 1, 1894 Gazam, Pennsylvania[1] |
| Died |
June 5, 1966 (aged 72) Salina, Kansas |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1913 | Dickinson Seminary |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1921–1937 | Kansas Wesleyan |
| Basketball | |
| 1921–1938 | Kansas Wesleyan |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall |
73–40–13 (football) 113–161 (basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 6 KCAC (1927, 1929, 1931, 1934–1936) | |
Alexander Brown Mackie was college professor, business college founder, and an American football coach in the United States.
Academic contributions
Mackie was the co-founder of Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kansas. He and Perry E. Brown founded the school as a business college, taking what was a part of the Kansas Wesleyan school of business.[2] The school operates today with campuses in many locations across the United States.
Before moving to Salina and Kansas Wesleyan, Mackie was a student at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.[3]
Athletics
Playing career
Mackie played football for Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the 1913 season.[4]
Coaching career
Mackie was the ninth head football coach for the Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes located in Salina, Kansas and he held that position for 17 seasons, from 1921 until 1937. His coaching record at Kansas Wesleyan was 73 wins, 40 losses, and 13 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2009 season, this ranks him 2 at Kansas Wesleyan in total wins and second at the school in winning percentage (.631). [5]
Mackie's 1922 team was considered having "no great strengths" by football legend Walter Camp.[6] As he spent more time with the program, his teams encountered more success. Mackie's teams won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship five times during his tenure.[7] Midway through the 1931 season, his team was one of the few undefeated teams in the country.[8]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Independent) (1921–1923) | |||||||||
| 1921 | Kansas Wesleyan | 0–3 | |||||||
| 1922 | Kansas Wesleyan | 0–3 | |||||||
| 1923 | Kansas Wesleyan | 1–1–1 | |||||||
| Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1924–1937) | |||||||||
| 1924 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–3 | |||||||
| 1925 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–2–1 | |||||||
| 1926 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–4 | |||||||
| 1927 | Kansas Wesleyan | 7–0–1 | |||||||
| 1928 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–2–2 | |||||||
| 1929 | Kansas Wesleyan | 6–0–2 | |||||||
| 1930 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–3–2 | |||||||
| 1931 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–1–2 | |||||||
| 1932 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–3 | |||||||
| 1933 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–4 | |||||||
| 1934 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–4 | |||||||
| 1935 | Kansas Wesleyan | 4–3–1 | |||||||
| 1936 | Kansas Wesleyan | 7–1–1 | |||||||
| 1937 | Kansas Wesleyan | 5–3–1 | |||||||
| Kansas Wesleyan: | 72–40–14 | ||||||||
| Total: | 72–40–14 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
References
- ↑ Jones, J.J. (2013). What It Meant to be a Coyote Book II. Xlibris Corporation. p. 13. ISBN 9781479771806. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ↑ Brown Mackie College history
- ↑ Seventy-Second Catalogue of Ohio Wesleyan University 1916
- ↑ The Dickinson Union October 1913
- ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes coaching records
- ↑ The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by Walter Camp) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922
- ↑ Kansas Wesleyan University Football media guide
- ↑ The Evening Independent "Only Five Teams Undefeated and Untied" November 30, 1931