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Biography
Vincent E. Montgomery (May 6, 1890 – November 12, 1945) was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota from 1916 to 1922, the University of South Dakota from 1927 to 1930, and Southern State Normal School—later known as University of South Dakota–Springfield—from 1933 to 1942. Montgomery was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota from 1923 to 1927 and the school's head track coach from 1923 to 1931.
Montgomery was born on May 6, 1890, in Newell, Iowa. He moved with his family in 1902 to Sioux City, Iowa, where he attended Sioux City High School and graduated from Morningside Academy in 1909. He then played college football and ran track at Morningside College, also in Sioux City, from which he graduated in 1913. He played quarterback on the football team and was captain of the track team in the spring of 1913.
Montgomery began his coaching career in the fall of 1913 as football and track coach at Ida Grove High School in Ida Grove, Iowa.
served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was killed in a crash of a military aircraft, on November 12, 1945, near Mountain View, Arkansas.
Head coaching record
College football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yankton Greyhounds (Independent) | |||||||||
| 1916 | Yankton | 3–4 | |||||||
| Yankton Greyhounds (South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference) | |||||||||
| 1917 | Yankton | 5–0–1 | |||||||
| 1918 | Yankton | 0–1 | |||||||
| 1919 | Yankton | 6–1 | |||||||
| 1920 | Yankton | 5–1–2 | 4–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1921 | Yankton | 3–4 | 1–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1922 | Yankton | 6–2 | 4–1 | 3rd | |||||
| Yankton: | 28–13–3 | ||||||||
| South Dakota Coyotes (North Central Conference) | |||||||||
| 1927 | South Dakota | 7–2 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1928 | South Dakota | 3–5 | 1–3 | 5th | |||||
| 1929 | South Dakota | 4–4–1 | 0–3–1 | 5th | |||||
| 1930 | South Dakota | 1–5–2 | 0–4 | 5th | |||||
| South Dakota: | 15–16–3 | 6–10–1 | |||||||
| Southern Normal Pointers (South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference) | |||||||||
| 1933 | Southern Normal | 3–5 | 2–4 | 7th | |||||
| 1934 | Southern Normal | 1–3–2 | 1–3–1 | 7th | |||||
| 1935 | Southern Normal | 3–3 | 3–2 | 4th | |||||
| 1936 | Southern Normal | 5–2 | 2–2 | 6th | |||||
| 1937 | Southern Normal | 5–3 | 4–1 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1938 | Southern Normal | 4–2 | 3–2 | 4th | |||||
| 1939 | Southern Normal | 2–5 | 1–4 | 9th | |||||
| 1940 | Southern Normal | 0–8 | 0–4 | 5th | |||||
| 1941 | Southern Normal | 2–4 | 1–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1942 | Southern Normal | 1–4 | |||||||
| Southern Normal: | 26–39–2 | ||||||||
| Total: | 54–52–5 | ||||||||