Career
He served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (1915–1916, 1922–1934), Vanderbilt University (1918, 1935–1939), Temple University (1940–1948), and Austin College (1949–1952), compiling a career college football record of 155–130–34. Morrison was also the head basketball coach at Vanderbilt for one season in 1918-1919, tallying a mark of 8–2, and the head baseball coach at the school in 1919, notching a record of 3–3. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954.
He played football as a prominent halfback and quarterback for Dan McGugin"s Vanderbilt football teams from 1908 to 1911.
Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. 1908
The 1908 squad was hampered by a wealth of sophomores, which McGugin with the help of halfback Morrison led to a 7–2–1 campaign, derailed mostly by losses to Sewanee.
1911
Edwin Pope"s Football"s Greatest Coaches on the 1911 team reads "A lightning-swift backfield of Lew Hardage, Wilson Collins, Ammie Sikes, and Ray Morrison pushed Vandy through 1911 with only a 9-8 loss to Michigan." The Atlanta Constitution voted it the best backfield in the South. Former Yale star Ted Coy selected Morrison All-American.
= Bachelor of Ugliness In 1912, that honor was given to Morrison.
Morrison brought the forward pass to the southwest during his time at SMU, using Gerald Mann as his passer. Morrison resigned from his position at Vanderbilt to go to Temple, and resigned from Temple in 1949.