Ernest C. Wills | |
Birth Date: | 28 March 1892 |
Birth Place: | Clinton, Iowa, U.S. |
Death Place: | Bryan, Texas, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1913–1915 |
Player Team1: | Iowa |
Player Positions: | Fullback |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1922 |
Coach Team2: | Tempe Normal |
Coach Years3: | 1923 |
Coach Team3: | Fremont HS (NE) |
Coach Years4: | 1924 |
Coach Team4: | Chadron Normal |
Coach Sport5: | Basketball |
Coach Years6: | 1922–1923 |
Coach Team6: | Tempe Normal |
Coach Years7: | 1924–1925 |
Coach Team7: | Chadron Normal |
Coach Sport8: | Baseball |
Coach Years9: | 1923 |
Coach Team9: | Tempe Normal |
Admin Years1: | 1922 |
Admin Team1: | Tempe Normal |
Overall Record: | 8–4–1 (college football) 12–14 (college basketball) 5–5 (college baseball) |
Ernest Claude Wills (March 28, 1892 – December 24, 1976) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, in 1922 and at Chadron State College in 1924, compiling a career college football record of 8–4–1. Wills was also the head basketball coach at Tempe Normal in 1922–23, tallying a mark of 8–4, and the head baseball coach at the school in 1923, guiding his baseball squad to a 5–5 record. Wills graduated the University of Iowa in 1916 with a degree in engineering. He played on the Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1913 through 1915.
Wills graduated from Clinton High School in Clinton, Iowa. In 1923, he was hired physical director and coach at Fremont High School in Fremont, Nebraska.[1] Wills died on December 24, 1976, at St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan, Texas.[2]