Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869–1919 era.

In 1911, Coy selected Morrison All-American and the Atlanta Constitution voted Vanderbilt the best backfield in the South.

He was also the first head coach in the history of SMU Mustangs football, and helped popularize the forward pass in the Southwest with his "Flying Circus" teams, most notably when led by Gerald Mann.

To achieve funds for college, Morrison worked on a dredge boat on the Mississippi River for a year.

Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869–1919 era.

[2] 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,[7] including a loss to rival Sewanee.

In a 16–9 defeat of Tennessee, widely considered their greatest team at that point,[8] Walker Leach got loose for a 60-yard run on a fake kick, tracked down by Morrison and stopped short of the goal.

[14] 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."

[19] In "easily the greatest southern game of the season", Vanderbilt claimed the SIAA title by beating Mississippi 21–0.

Morrison first taught and was athletics director at Branham & Hughes Military Academy in Spring Hill.

In 1919, Morrison spent a year at Gulf Coast Military Academy as athletics director and teacher.

An 18-game unbeaten streak was ended in the 1925 Dixie Classic, with a touchdown off a tipped pass for West Virginia Wesleyan's Gale Bullman, and a 30-yard field goal missed in the final minute.

Fred Russell offered this description of Morrison upon his arrival as coach of Vanderbilt:[4]A gentle, soft-spoken person who talks out of the side of his mouth with convincing firmness.

Eyes with a permanent twinkle, tiny wrinkles about them when he smiles, but a set jaw that seems to enclose teeth constantly gritted tighter.

A happy combination that blends austerity and affability into well-nigh perfect personality--that's the Ray Morrison of today who was known to Nashvillians twenty-five years ago as Vanderbilt's whirling quarterback.Morrison's first team in his second stint finished second place in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), led by captain and SEC player of the year Willie Geny.

The 1937 team upset LSU on a hidden ball trick, the school's first-ever victory over a ranked opponent (the AP Poll began in 1936).