Bill Morley

William Raymond Bill Morley, Jr. was an American football player, coach, and rancher. Born in New Mexico, he played college football for the University of Michigan and Columbia University and was selected as an AllAmerican in 1900 and 1901. Morley served as the head coach of the Columbia Lions football team from 1902 to 1905. He later returned to New Mexico where he was a successful cattle and sheep rancher. He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1971.

Morley was born in 1876 at Cimarron in Colfax County, New Mexico. His parents were William Raymond Morley, Sr. , and Ada Morley . His father was the chief engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad and later edited The Cimarron News and managed the Maxwell land grant in Cimarron. Morleys father was killed in 1883 from an accidental shooting in Mexico. Morley was six years old at the time of his fathers death. His father left extensive land holdings in the Datil Mountains near Datil, New Mexico. After his fathers death, his mother remarried, and moved with her three young children and her new husband, Floyd Jarrett, to the Datil Mountains. Jarrett abandoned the family in approximately 1889, and Morleys mother raised her children in a log house roofed with adobe sod. Morleys sister, Agnes Morley Cleaveland , later wrote a bestselling book titled No Life for a Lady about their life in the Datil Mountains.

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