Clement M. Eyler | |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1897 |
Birth Place: | Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. |
Death Place: | Cookeville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1932 |
Coach Team2: | Milligan |
Coach Sport3: | Basketball |
Coach Years4: | 1926–1942 |
Coach Team4: | Milligan |
Overall Record: | 0–6 (football) |
Clement Manley Eyler (May 21, 1897 – February 15, 1979) was an American football and basketball coach and educator. He served as the head basketball coach at Milligan College—now known as Milligan University—in Milligan College, Tennessee from 1926 to 1942. Eyler was also the head football coach at Milligan for one season, in 1932.
Eyler studied at the University of Georgia, Columbia University, and the University of Tennessee. In addition to coaching, he was also an English professor at Milligan.[1] Eyler was the superintendent of schools in Bristol, Tennessee for 10 years before joining the English Department at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute—now known as Tennessee Technological University—in Cookeville, Tennessee in 1957.[2]
Eyler died on February 15, 1979, in Cookeville, after a long illness.[3]