Tillman Sease
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 6, 1916 |
| Died | September 2, 1988 (aged 71) Cheverly, Maryland, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1948–1955 | Christiansburg Institute |
| 1956–1958 | Bluefield State (assistant) |
| 1959–1961 | Bluefield State |
| 1962–1968 | Howard |
| 1970–1972 | Howard |
| Basketball | |
| 1948–1956 | Christiansburg Institute |
| 1956–1958 | Bluefield State (assistant) |
| Baseball | |
| 1949–1955 | Christiansburg Institute |
| 1967 | Howard |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1959–1961 | Bluefield State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 53–58–1 (college football) 5–9 (college baseball) |
Tillman R. Sease Sr. (September 6, 1916 – September 2, 1988)[1] was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Bluefield State College in Bluefield, West Virginia from 1959 to 1961 and Howard University in Washington, D.C. from 1962 to 1968 and from 1970 to 1972, compiling a career college football coaching record of 53–58–1.[2][3] He was also Howard's head baseball coach.[3]
A native of York, Pennsylvania, Sease graduated from Bluefield State in 1948 and later earned a master's degree in education from Columbia University. From 1948 to 1956, he was the athletic director at Christiansburg Institute in Christiansburg, Virginia, where he also coached football, basketball, and baseball. Sease returned to Bluefield State in 1956, where he worked as an assistant football and basketball coach under Sam B. Taylor for three years. He was appointed athletic director at Bluefield State in 1959.[4]
Head coaching record[edit]
College football[edit]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluefield State Big Blues (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1959) | |||||||||
| 1959 | Bluefield State | 3–6 | 1–4 | 16th | |||||
| Bluefield State Big Blues () (1969–1961) | |||||||||
| 1960 | Bluefield State | 3–5 | |||||||
| 1961 | Bluefield State | 3–3–1 | |||||||
| Bluefield State: | 9–14–1 | ||||||||
| Howard Bison (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1962–1968) | |||||||||
| 1962 | Howard | 1–8 | 0–6 | 18th | |||||
| 1963 | Howard | 4–5 | 1–4 | 15th | |||||
| 1964 | Howard | 8–2 | 4–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1965 | Howard | 5–3 | 2–3 | 10th | |||||
| 1966 | Howard | 4–4 | 2–3 | 12th | |||||
| 1967 | Howard | 2–6 | 2–3 | 12th | |||||
| 1968 | Howard | 3–5 | 2–3 | 9th | |||||
| Howard Bison (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1970) | |||||||||
| 1970 | Howard | 7–2 | 3–2 | 4th | |||||
| Howard Bison (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) (1971–1972) | |||||||||
| 1971 | Howard | 4–5 | 1–5 | T–6th | |||||
| 1972 | Howard | 6–4 | 2–4 | T–5th | |||||
| Howard: | 44–44 | 19–34 | |||||||
| Total: | 53–58–1 | ||||||||
References[edit]
- ^ "Tilliman R Sease". Retrieved August 1, 2020.
- ^ Logan, Rayford W. (1969). Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814702635. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
- ^ a b "Tillman Sease, Former Howard Coach, Dies". Washington Post. September 5, 1988. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ^ "Native Yorker Gets Top Sports Post At Bluefield". The York Dispatch. York, Pennsylvania. June 3, 1959. p. 22. Retrieved January 8, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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- 1916 births
- 1988 deaths
- Bluefield State Big Blues athletic directors
- Bluefield State Big Blues football coaches
- Bluefield State Big Blues men's basketball coaches
- Howard Bison baseball coaches
- Howard Bison football coaches
- Bluefield State College alumni
- Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
- Sportspeople from York, Pennsylvania
- African-American coaches of American football
- African-American college athletic directors in the United States
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople