Hill has been coaching at
MOREHOUSE Morehouse since 1979, when he
joined the football coaching staff.
COLLEGE He began as a defensive
SPORTS coordinator for eleven years.
Then in 1990, Hill brought the
by Don Talbert (1999) Cross Country team back to life.
In 1867, Morehouse College He managed to win the Southern
was founded as Augusta Intercollegiate Athletic
Institute, in Augusta Ga. It was Conference (S.I.A.C) title, in just
later renamed Atlanta Baptist his second season.
College, after relocating in After eight seasons as head
Atlanta in 1879 and Morehouse track and field coach, Hill has
in 1913. won three S.I.A.C.
Morehouse College (Maroon championships, with the last one
Tigers) is a well known in 1996.
independent predominately Black Morehouse also fields varsity
four year liberal arts institution, teams in football, basketball and
populated with an all-male tennis.
student body.
For most of the last 130 years,
Morehouse College has been a
leader in academics and sports.
Prominent Alumni include Dr.
Martin L. King Jr.; Civil Rights
leader and Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate. Next Doctor Louis
Sullivan, President of the
Morehouse School of Medicine.
Morehouse first received
international sports attention in
1976, when Edwin Moses won his
first of two gold medal in the 400
meter hurdles, at the Olympic
Games in Montreal, Canada.
During his career, Moses ran up
a string of 108 victories in the 400
meter hurdles, along with his
second gold medal at the Los
Angeles Games, eight years later.
He also graduated with honors in
Physics to culminate his
outstanding career at
Morehouse, as a scholar athlete.
According to Morehouse Track
and Field coach Willie Hill, “My
satisfaction comes not so much
from what I have done, but what
the team has done.” He
continued, “It’s all a matter of
being knowledgeable about the
meets’ events, not understanding
opponents, and having the
ability to work with young people
to be the best that they can be.”