B. T. Harvey

Burwell Towns Harvey Jr. (July 18, 1892 – October 15, 1971) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach, athletics administrator, and college professor. He served two stints as the head football coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta, from 1916 to 1925 and 1927 to 1928, compiling a record of 56–23–6.

Harvey was born in 1892, in Griffin, Georgia, and grew up in Peru, Indiana and Lakewood, New Jersey. He graduated from Colgate University, and earned a master's degree from Columbia University. Harvey went to Morehouse in 1916 to teach chemistry and physics. In addition to football, he also coached baseball and basketball at Morehouse before stepping down from coaching in 1929. Harvey's football teams at Morehouse won five Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) champions, and his basketball squads won ten consecutive SIAC titles. He was the head of the chemistry department at Morehouse until 1957, when he left the school after 41 years to teach at Alabama State College—now known as Alabama State University. In 1962, he moved on to teach at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama. Harvey served as commissioner of the SIAC for more than 40 years, until he was succeeded in 1967 by W. S. M. Banks.

Harvey died on October 15, 1971, in Atlanta. B. T. Harvey Stadium, Morehouse's football stadium, which was completed in 1983, is named for him.

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