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Lovette Hill

Baseball coach

Died when: 82 years 158 days (989 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Lovette Hill

Lovette Lee Hill (March 23, 1907 – August 27, 1989) was an American football and baseball coach.He was the fourth head coach of the Houston Cougars baseball team from 1950 to 1974.

Hill holds the record for the longest serving head baseball coach in University of Houston history.While at Houston, Hill compiled a 343–325–5 record with five first-place finishes in the Missouri Valley Conference.

He guided the Cougars to their only two College World Series appearances, in 1953 and 1967.In 1967, his team was national runner-up.

From 1949 to 1961, Hill also served as an assistant coach for the Houston Cougars football team.He graduated in 1931 from Centenary College of Louisiana.


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