Martin Henry Garrity Jr. (January 30, 1900 – August 30, 1972) was an

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and

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player, coach of football,

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, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

from 1923 to 1925, compiling a record of 19–7–1. Garrity was also the head basketball coach at Wake Forest from 1923 to 1925, tallying a mark of 33–14. He served as the head baseball coach at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

in 1923 and at Wake Forest from 1924 to 1925. Garrity was an alumnus of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, from which he graduated in 1922. At Princeton he played football and baseball. Garrity came to Missouri in 1922 as an assistant football coach. There he served under head coach Thomas Kelley. Garrity was born on January 30, 1900, in

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. He died on August 30, 1972, in

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, where he had resided in his later years.

Head coaching record

Football

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