William Kelso Morrill

William Kelso Morrill Sr. (13 December 1903 to 11 April 1968) was a college lacrosse player, coach and administrator from Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Baltimore City College and then Johns Hopkins University, where he played lacrosse from 1925 to 1927 and where his teams won two national titles. In 1935 he became head lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins, a post he held until 1950, and his 1941 team went 12 and 0, won the national title of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, outscored opponents 151 to 19 and recorded five shutouts. He won two Wingate Memorial trophies in that role. After coaching he stayed active in the sport in administrative and rule-setting roles, including as an executive and head of officials for the association, and he was described as one of the finest early innovators of the college game. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inducted him in 1978, and Johns Hopkins named a mathematics award for him in 1995. His son William K. Morrill Jr. also starred at Hopkins and entered the same hall of fame.