Bus Thompson

Herbert B. "Bus" Thompson (1912 – August 29, 2001) was an American football, basketball, track coach and college athletic administrator. He served as the head football coach at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1950 to 1955. Thompson was also the Fisk's head basketball coach from 1950 to 1970, head track coach from 1956 to 1960, and athletic director from 1954 to 1977.

Bus Thompson
Biographical details
Born1912
Gary, West Virginia
Died(2001-08-29)August 29, 2001 (aged 89)
Opelika, Alabama
Playing career
Football
1935–1936Bluefield State
1937New York Brown Bombers
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
c. 1940Morristown
1950–1955Fisk
Basketball
c. 1940Morristown
1945–1950Morris Brown
1950–1970Fisk
Baseball
c. 1940Morristown
Track
1956–1960Fisk
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
c. 1940Morristown
1954–1977Fisk

Born in Gary, West Virginia, Thompson played college football at Bluefield State College in Bluefield, West Virginia, earning black All-American honors in 1935 and 1936 and leading the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association—now known as the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)—in scoring in 1935. He played professionally with the New York Brown Bombers in 1937. Thompson began his coaching career as athletic director and head coach of football, basketball, and baseball at Morristown College in Morristown, Tennessee. He was the head basketball coach at Morris Brown College in Atlanta from 1945 to 1950.[1][2]

Thompson died of pneumonia, on August 29, 2001, at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Alabama. [3]

Head coaching record

College football
Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Fisk Bulldogs (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1950–1955)
1950 Fisk 5–2
1951 Fisk 6–25–24th
1952 Fisk 6–3
1953 Fisk 3–5
1954 Fisk 4–4
1955 Fisk 2–81–5T–14th
Fisk: 26–24
Total:26–24

References
  1. "H. B. Thompson Named Head Grid Coach At Fisk". Alabama Tribune. Montgomery, Alabama. September 1, 1950. p. 7. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
  2. Huggins, Harold (February 6, 1990). "'Bus' Thompson hails ride into state's Hall of Fame". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 9. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
  3. Wadhwani, Anita (September 3, 2001). "Former Fisk coach Herbert 'Bus' Thompson, 89, dies". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 19. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
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