Ray Van Orman
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 25, 1884 Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 24, 1954 (aged 70) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1904–1906 | Cornell |
| Position(s) | End |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1912–1919 | Cornell (assistant) |
| 1920–1935 | Johns Hopkins |
| 1936–1939 | Cornell (assistant) |
| Lacrosse | |
| 1926–1934 | Johns Hopkins |
| 1935 | Mount Washington L.C. |
| 1940–1949 | Cornell |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1920–1935 | Johns Hopkins |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 60–64–7 (college football) 95–56 (college lacrosse) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 Maryland state football (1921) 3 USILL (1926–1928) 3 USILA (1932–1934) | |
Ray Van Orman (January 25, 1884 – May 24, 1954) was an American veterinarian and
National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
in 1992.
Early life
Van Orman attended
Glenn "Pop" Warner
from 1904 to 1906.
[1] During his freshman year in 1904, he was elected class president.[1] He served as the football team captain in 1906.[2][3] Van Orman was expelled from the university in March 1906 by the student conduct committee for allegedly "cribbing" during a veterinary surgery examination.[3] He later returned to the school and graduated with a doctorate of veterinary medicine in 1908.[4]
Coaching career
In 1912, Van Orman returned to his alma mater to serve on the
Baltimore, Maryland. Van Orman worked in those roles through 1935.[4] In 1933, The Sunday Spartanburg Herald-Journal ran a story on his invention of a "scrimmage machine". The contraption was a large wooden triangular frame from which dummies filled with sand or sawdust were arranged in the formation used by the opposing team.[6] As a head football coach, he compiled a 60–64–7 record.[7] Despite never having seen a game of lacrosse before, he became the coach of the Johns Hopkins team in 1926.[4] In 1928 and 1932, his teams won tournaments to represent the United States in the Olympic Games.[8] During his tenure as Hopkins lacrosse coach from 1926 to 1934, Van Orman's teams amassed a 71–11 record and captured six national championships.[9]
In 1935, the Johns Hopkins University administration began a policy to "de-emphasize" football,[10] and Van Orman left to coach the highly successful amateur Mount Washington Lacrosse Club.[4] In February, he was offered the position as head coach of the Yale University lacrosse team,[11] but that ultimately fell through.[12] The following year, he returned to Cornell as an assistant football coach.[4] From 1940 to 1949, Van Orman served as the head coach of the Cornell lacrosse team and amassed a 24–45 record.[13]
Van Orman died of a heart attack on May 24, 1954, in
National Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a player in 1992.[4]
References
- ^ a b Cornell Alumni News (PDF), Cornell University, December 6, 1905.
- ^ Cornell Gridiron Star; Ray Van Orman, 1905–6 End, Dies—Also Lacrosse Coach, The New York Times, May 24, 1954.
- ^ a b Van Orman Dropped; Cornell Football Captain Has Been Removed. "Cribbing" in An Examination the Charge Against Him, Boston Daily Globe, March 21, 1906.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Ray Van Orman, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, retrieved August 3, 2010.
- ^ Van Orman To Help Sharpe, Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 1912.
- ^ Mentor Invents Scrimmage 'Man', The Sunday Spartanburg Herald-Journal, November 19, 1933.
- ^ All-Time Coaching Records by Year Archived 2010-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved August 23, 2010.
- ^ Neil A. Grauer, Put a hundred candles on that cake!, Johns Hopkins Magazine, April 2007.
- ^ "All-Time Coaching Records", 2010 Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse Media Guide, p. 82, Johns Hopkins University, 2010.
- ^ Gibberish, The Baltimore Sun, January 7, 1935.
- ^ Van Orman Yale Coach; Former Johns Hopkins Mentor to Direct Lacrosse Team, The New York Times, February 18, 1935.
- ^ Yale Delays Action On Signing Van Orman, The Baltimore Sun, March 12, 1935.
- ^ "All-Time Coaching Records", 2009 Cornell Men's Lacrosse Media Guide, p. 57, Cornell University, 2009.
- ^ Dr. Ray Van Orman, Former Hopkins Coach, Dies At Ithaca, The Baltimore Sun, May 24, 1954.