Malcolm Upshur "Mac" Pitt (January 10, 1897 – September 16, 1985) was an

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, and

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coach and college athletics administrator. At the

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he served as the head men's basketball coach from 1933 to 1952, the head baseball coach from 1935 to 1971, and the

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from 1942 to 1967. Pitt was also the head football coach for two seasons, from 1943 to 1944. Pitt's 1934–35 basketball squad finished a perfect 20–0, the only unbeaten Spider basketball team in history. As a student at Richmond from 1915 to 1918, Pitt played football and baseball and ran on the

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team.

Honors and death

Pitt was elected to the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1971 and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.

Malcolm U. Pitt Field Malcolm U. Pitt Field is a baseball venue located on the campus of the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The field is home to the Richmond Spiders baseball team of the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference.

, the baseball stadium at Richmond, is named in Pitt's honor. He died after a brief illness in 1985 at a Richmond hospital.

Head coaching record

Football

Basketball

References

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