| Floyd Wagstaff | |
| Birth Date: | 8 January 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Shelby County, Texas, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Tyler, Texas, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1935–1936 |
| Player Team2: | Stephen F. Austin |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1937–1941 |
| Coach Team2: | Kilgore HS (TX) (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 1942–1944 |
| Coach Team3: | Kilgore HS (TX) |
| Coach Years4: | 1945 |
| Coach Team4: | Tyler HS (TX) (assistant) |
| Coach Years5: | 1947–1962 |
| Coach Team5: | Tyler |
| Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
| Coach Years7: | 1937–1938 |
| Coach Team7: | Kilgore JHS (TX) |
| Coach Years8: | 1941–? |
| Coach Team8: | Kilgore HS (TX) |
| Coach Years9: | 1945–1946 |
| Coach Team9: | Tyler HS (TX) |
| Coach Years10: | 1946–1975 |
| Coach Team10: | Tyler |
| Coach Sport11: | Baseball |
| Coach Years12: | 1946 |
| Coach Team12: | Tyler HS (TX) |
| Admin Years1: | 1941–? |
| Admin Team1: | Kilgore HS (TX) |
| Admin Years2: | 1963–1984 |
| Admin Team2: | Tyler |
| Overall Record: | 130–36 (junior college football) 743–225 (junior college basketball) 17–10–1 (high school football) |
| Bowl Record: | 3–3 (junior college) |
| Championships: | Football 2 SJCC (1947, 1949) 4 Big Six JC (1950–1953) 3 TEC (1958, 1960–1961) Basketball 2 NJCAA Division I (1949, 1951) |
Floyd Solomon Wagstaff (January 8, 1911 – February 5, 2000) was an American football and basketball coach and athletics administrator. He coached Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas from 1946 to 1975 and served as athletic director until retiring in 1984. He led the Apaches to national basketball championships in 1949 and 1951, and a record 11 NJCAA national tournament appearances. Wagstaff compiled 743–225 record as Tyler's basketball coach.
Wagstaff went to Kilgore, Texas in 1937 as coach of the junior high school. He became an assistant coach at Kilgore High School the following year. In January 1941, Wagstaff was appointed head basketball coach and athletic director at Kilgore High School.[1] He was the head football coach at Kilgore High School from 1942 to 1944. Wagstaff resigned from his post at Kilgore High School in 1945 to become head basketball coach and assistant football coach at Tyler High School.[2] He was also the head baseball coach at Tyler High School in the spring of 1946 before leaving to become head basketball coach at Tyler Junior College that fall.[3] Wagstaff was the first head football coach at Tyler Junior College, serving from 1947 to 1962. He was promoted to athletic director in 1963 and succeeded as head football coach by Babe Hallmark.[4]
Wagstaff died on February 5, 2000, at a hospital in Tyler.[5] [6] He is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Stephen F. Austin University Hall of Fame.