Jack Reavis Named New Baseball Coach
Title
Jack Reavis Named New Baseball Coach
Subject
Motlow Sports
Description
Newspaper article about Motlow's new Baseball coach, Jack Reavis
Creator
Bill Carbine
Date
June 27, 1973
Rights
No restrictions. Open for research.
Format
.jpeg
Language
English
Type
Newspaper Clipping
Transcription
By Bill Carbine
Jackie Reavis, former baseball coach at Franklin County High School where his 1968 team won a state championship, has been named head baseball coach at Motlow College, replacing John Stanford who resigned earlier this month.
Coach Reavis, 36, coached the past year at Franklin High School in Franklin, in Williamson County, where his team finished 2-12, the only team he has ever coached which was not a winner.
He coached at Franklin County from 1966 through 1969, putting together a 62-18 recorf for the four years, including state TSAA title in 1968.
His 1966 team at Franklin County finished with a 10-6 season slate, second to Tullahoma in the district. The following year his Rebels finished with a 17-2 mark, won the district title and lost to Calhoun in the region.
The boys he had been coaching for three years put it all together in 1968, finishing with a 22-3 mark and captured the district, region and state championship. His Franklin County team won the state tournament in Tullahoma that year, the only state baseball tournament ever played in Tullahoma.
His last team at Franklin County was 13-7 and third in the district in 1969.
The following year he was named head baseball and football coach at Marshall County High School in Lewisburg.
Won District Region
His 1970 Marshall County team finished 7-7, then came back the next year to compile a 15-5 mark and win the district and region, a feat the team repeated in 1972 with a 16-5 slate. Both of those years his team lost in the state tournament to the eventual state champion.
While he does not officially begin his duties at Motlow College until Sept. 1, Coach Reavis has already started building his program, as last week he signed Tullahoma star Bobby Branch, who will enroll in the fall.
Branch is a pitch-outfielder who compiled a 15-2 pitching record in three at THS and batted .298 with 28 stolen bases. He was a leader on the 1973 team which finished second in the state.
“We need to get more ball-players like Bobby Branch to stay in this area and play at Motlow. That’s what I’m going to try to do.” Coach Reavis said from Franklin Monday.
Need area boys
“All these fine ballplayers from this area who have been going to Columbia State are going to start going to Motlow College if I do what I hope to do there.”
“There is no reason why Motlow can’t hold the same kind of baseball program and tradition that Columbia State has enjoyed - we just need to keep some of those fine boys from that area at Motlow.”
The new coach is a native of Angler, N.C. and earned his bachelor of science and master of arts degrees from Middle Tennessee State University, where he was a member of the baseball team.
After graduation, he taught one year at Bel Aire School and Robert E. Lee School in Tullahoma before being named baseball coach at Franklin County.
He is married to the former Sandra Faye Couser, daughter of C.C Couser of Winchester. They have two sons, Jeff, 4, and Craig, 4 months.
Coach Reavis and his family are still living in Franklin, where he is working with a baseball program.
“I had not planned to move down there until September, but we may be moving a little sooner now.” He said Monday, explaining that he was standing in the rubble of what used to be his home, which was struck by lightning and burned Sunday night.
“We just haven’t decided now whether to still wait until September or to just go ahead and move now since this has happened,” he said.
Jackie Reavis, former baseball coach at Franklin County High School where his 1968 team won a state championship, has been named head baseball coach at Motlow College, replacing John Stanford who resigned earlier this month.
Coach Reavis, 36, coached the past year at Franklin High School in Franklin, in Williamson County, where his team finished 2-12, the only team he has ever coached which was not a winner.
He coached at Franklin County from 1966 through 1969, putting together a 62-18 recorf for the four years, including state TSAA title in 1968.
His 1966 team at Franklin County finished with a 10-6 season slate, second to Tullahoma in the district. The following year his Rebels finished with a 17-2 mark, won the district title and lost to Calhoun in the region.
The boys he had been coaching for three years put it all together in 1968, finishing with a 22-3 mark and captured the district, region and state championship. His Franklin County team won the state tournament in Tullahoma that year, the only state baseball tournament ever played in Tullahoma.
His last team at Franklin County was 13-7 and third in the district in 1969.
The following year he was named head baseball and football coach at Marshall County High School in Lewisburg.
Won District Region
His 1970 Marshall County team finished 7-7, then came back the next year to compile a 15-5 mark and win the district and region, a feat the team repeated in 1972 with a 16-5 slate. Both of those years his team lost in the state tournament to the eventual state champion.
While he does not officially begin his duties at Motlow College until Sept. 1, Coach Reavis has already started building his program, as last week he signed Tullahoma star Bobby Branch, who will enroll in the fall.
Branch is a pitch-outfielder who compiled a 15-2 pitching record in three at THS and batted .298 with 28 stolen bases. He was a leader on the 1973 team which finished second in the state.
“We need to get more ball-players like Bobby Branch to stay in this area and play at Motlow. That’s what I’m going to try to do.” Coach Reavis said from Franklin Monday.
Need area boys
“All these fine ballplayers from this area who have been going to Columbia State are going to start going to Motlow College if I do what I hope to do there.”
“There is no reason why Motlow can’t hold the same kind of baseball program and tradition that Columbia State has enjoyed - we just need to keep some of those fine boys from that area at Motlow.”
The new coach is a native of Angler, N.C. and earned his bachelor of science and master of arts degrees from Middle Tennessee State University, where he was a member of the baseball team.
After graduation, he taught one year at Bel Aire School and Robert E. Lee School in Tullahoma before being named baseball coach at Franklin County.
He is married to the former Sandra Faye Couser, daughter of C.C Couser of Winchester. They have two sons, Jeff, 4, and Craig, 4 months.
Coach Reavis and his family are still living in Franklin, where he is working with a baseball program.
“I had not planned to move down there until September, but we may be moving a little sooner now.” He said Monday, explaining that he was standing in the rubble of what used to be his home, which was struck by lightning and burned Sunday night.
“We just haven’t decided now whether to still wait until September or to just go ahead and move now since this has happened,” he said.
Collection
Citation
Bill Carbine, “Jack Reavis Named New Baseball Coach,” Motlow State Community College Archives, accessed April 29, 2024, https://msccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/69.
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