Talmadge L. Hill

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Name = Talmadge L. Hill


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Sport = Basketball
College = Morgan State College
Title = Coach
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OverallRecord = 149–128
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Championships = CIAA 1949, 1956
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Years = 1924-1927
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CoachYears = 1948-1960
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Talmadge L. "Marse" Hill was the head basketball coach and an assistant football coach at Morgan State College, from the 1930s to the 1960s; a time when African American colleges were segregated from playing in the NCAA.

Early life

Hill, a native of East Orange, New Jersey,cite book|last=Patterson|first=Ted|title=Football In Baltimore|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Maryland|date=2000|pages=304|isbn=ISBN:0801864240|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cZeye8iTWyMC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=marse+hill&source=web&ots=9gDYMMb2YO&sig=UE_DAYWQNcCYuEHIuEnSrzm25Co&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA48,M1|accessdate=2008-07-26] graduated from Morgan State College in 1928. Hill played football for the Morgan Bears, and in a game verses Lincoln University he was tackled by a player from Lincoln's bench as Hill was streaking down the sideline for the apparent winning touchdown. Morgan eventually was awarded the touchdown and won the game. After his career at Morgan, Hill earned a Master’s degree at Columbia University and then returned to Morgan as a teacher and assistant coach in 1930. [cite web|url=http://www.msunaa.morgan.edu/UniversityNews/Morgan_Mag/07_Vol1.pdf|title=The Talmadge L. Hill Field House|publisher=Morgan Magazine|accessdate=2008-07-24] cite book|url=http://wordassociation.com/runfromthere/index.htm|last=Wade|first=Herman L.|title=Run From There|publisher=Word Association|location=United States|date=2004-06-01|pages=211|isbn=978-1932205787|accessdate=2008-07-05] Hill was hired as a professor and taught Biology. [cite web|url=http://www.aomol.net/000001/000509/html/am509--2.html|title=THE FIRST COLORED Professional, Clerical and Business DIRECTORY OF BALTIMORE CITY 19th Annual Edition, 1931-1932|publisher=Archives of Maryland|accessdate=2008-07-24]

Coaching career

Early in his coaching career at Morgan, Hill was the assistant to Edward P. Hurt in football, basketball and track. He took over head coaching responsibilities for the basketball team in 1948 and served as the head coach until 1960. Hill was described as a conservative coach and one who did not like "fancy" ball handlers playing for him. He was so straight laced that his players nicknamed him "the Gov" (for Governor). [cite book|title=Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond|editor=Bob Batchelor|publisher=Hawood Press|location=Binghamton, New York|isbn=13:978-0-7890-1613-3|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=v8r__pvCopgC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=Marse+Hill&source=web&ots=olr8xCMNNj&sig=FvqipsiV_fQy4pVFyJPWK3UeIDc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPT1,M1|accessdate=2007-07-24] hidden begin|title= Hill's basketball year-by-year results [cite web|url=http://www.morganstatebears.com/Pdfs/mbball/2007/11/13/Pages%2069-92.pdf|title=MSU Coaches’ Records|publisher=Morgan State University Sports Information Office|accessdate=2008-07-24]
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Awards and honors

*1969-named to the Maryland Commission on Physical Fitness [cite web|url=http://aomol.net/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000172/html/am172--89.html|title=Commission on Physical Fitness|publisher=Maryland Manual|accessdate=2008-07-24]
*1974-Morgan State University field house("pictured") named in his honor [cite web|url=http://www.morgan.edu/about-msu/msuphotos/Hurt.asp|title= Hurt Gymnasium|publisher=Morgan state University|accessdate=2008-07-15]
*The MEAC men’s All-Sports Award is named for Coach Hill [cite web|url=http://www.shawuniversity.edu/press_releases/pigskin_club.htm|title=Pigskin Club Honors Asberry & Ellis in Nation’s Capital|publisher=Shaw University|accessdate=2008-07-24]
*Chairman of the MEAC Steering and Planning Committee and the league’s first president
*1972-elected to the Morgan State University Athletic Hall of Fame
*1975-inducted into the The Pigskin Club Hall of Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame [cite web|url=http://www.pigskinclub.com/halloffame.html|title=Hall of Fame|publisher=The Pigskin Club Hall of Washington, D.C.|accessdate=2008-07-24]
*1978-inducted into the HBCU Hall of Fame

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