D. V. Graves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

D. V. Graves

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1886

Place of Birth: Lincoln County, Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1960

Profession: basketball coach, baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Dorsett Vandeventer "Tubby" Graves (November 27, 1886 – January 16, 1960) was a college head coach in baseball, football, and basketball, and a player of football and baseball.A head coach in three sports, Graves was primarily a baseball coach, and led three college programs for a total of 32 seasons.
He began at the University of Alabama for four seasons (1912–1915), spent another four at Texas A&M University (1916–1919), and finished with 24 seasons the University of Washington (1923–1946). In the sport of football, he was a college head coach for seven seasons: at Alabama (1911–1914), Texas A&M (1918), and the Agricultural College of the State of Montana—now Montana State University (1920–1921), compiling a career record of 32–18–4.
In basketball, he served as a head coach for six years: at Alabama (1912–1915), Texas A&M (1915–1916), and Montana Agricultural (1920–1922).
At Washington, he was a longtime assistant coach in football and basketball, and later an assistant athletic director. In the summer of 1912, Graves was the manager of the La Junta Railroaders, a minor league baseball team in Colorado of the short-lived Rocky Mountain League.