Gus Miller | |
Birth Date: | 3 August 1900 |
Birth Place: | Pine Grove, Texas, U.S. |
Death Place: | Denton, Texas, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1919 |
Player Team2: | West Texas State |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1923–1926 |
Coach Team2: | Slaton HS (TX) |
Coach Years3: | 1927–1936 |
Coach Team3: | Trinidad HS (CO) |
Coach Years4: | 1937–1941 |
Coach Team4: | Texas Wesleyan |
Coach Years5: | 1942–1946 |
Coach Team5: | West Texas State |
Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
Coach Years7: | 1937–1942 |
Coach Team7: | Texas Wesleyan |
Coach Years8: | 1942–1957 |
Coach Team8: | West Texas State |
Admin Years1: | 1946–1957 |
Admin Team1: | West Texas State |
Overall Record: | 41–32–3 (college football) 283–154 (college basketball) |
Tournament Record: | Basketball 4–3 (NAIA) 0–1 (NCAA) |
Championships: | Football 1 Texas Conference (1940) Basketball 4 Texas Conference (1938, 1940–1942) 3 Border (1943, 1952, 1955) |
William Augustus Miller (August 3, 1900 – February 16, 1992) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Texas Wesleyan College—now known as Texas Wesleyan University—in Fort Worth, Texas from 1937 to 1941 and West Texas State Teachers College—now known as West Texas A&M University—in Canyon, Texas–from 1942 to 1946, compiling a career college football coaching record of 41–32–3. Miller was also the head basketball coach at Texas Wesleyan from 1947 to 1942 and West Texas State from 1942 to 1957, tallying a career college basketball coaching mark of 283–154. His basketball teams won three Border Conference championships and made an appearance in the 1955 NCAA basketball tournament.[1]
Miller coached at Trinidad High School in Trinidad, Colorado for 10 years before he was hired at Texas Wesleyan in 1937.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Miller was born in Pine Grove, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree from West Texas State and a master's degree from Texas Tech University. He died on February 16, 1992, at a hospital in Denton, Texas.[6]