Dr. Malcolm Upshur Pitt
Assistant Football Coach, 1928-1933; Basketball Coach 1933-1953; Baseball Coach, 1935-1972
Athletic Director, 1941-1967; Director of Athletics, Emeritus, 1971-1985
On April 15, 1993, Dr. Pitt was added to the University of Richmond Trustees' Honor Roll of Distinguished Faculty, Administrators and Staff. On that date, Dr. Fred Anderson of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society had the following remarks:
Frequently I put on a costume and makeup and portray some character from history and one of my heroes is Robert Healy Pitt, who was editor of the Religious Herald and dean of all religious editors in the United States. This very afternoon I have to gray my hair, glue on a moustache, put on wire rim glasses and portray Pitt for a video production. Everytime I would ask his son, Mac Pitt, about his father, the coach would light up like the bulbs on a Christmas tree. That very reaction spoke volumes about the relationship between father and son and the types of men both were. Coach Malcolm Pitt was athletics personified but he was more than a legend and a star coach of winning teams. He was a gentleman who used athletics to reach into the character shaping chambers of young men. His Sunday school class at First Baptist Church was as popular as the playing field. He coached as if it were a ministry!