Ouachita Baptist University Athletics

Early in the fall of 1912, Morley Jennings arrived on the Ouachita campus to begin a remarkable successful coaching career and established the Tigers as one of the most feared football teams in all of the South.

In 14 full seasons, Jennings’ teams won 71 games, lost 15 and tied 13. Jennings’ teams scored more than 2,000 points while holding opponents to only 364. His Tigers never lost to Hendrix, College of the Ozarks, Arkansas Tech, Magnolia A&M or Little Rock College. Jennings also led his Tigers against major universities and defeated teams such as Arkansas, Mississippi A&M (now Mississippi State) and the University of Mississippi.

Jennings’ most memorable season was the season of 1914 in which Ouachita defeated the Univ. of Arkansas and the Univ. of Mississippi. The October 10 edition of the Arkansas Gazette remarked that it was “…the first victory for a state college eleven over the university eleven.” Jennings left Ouachita to serve in the same capacity at Baylor where he stayed for 14 years. Jennings was inducted into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in New York City in January of 1973.