| Howdy Myers | |
| Birth Date: | 23 August 1910 |
| Death Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1946–1949 |
| Coach Team2: | Johns Hopkins |
| Coach Years3: | 1950–1974 |
| Coach Team3: | Hofstra |
| Coach Years4: | 1979 |
| Coach Team4: | Johns Hopkins |
| Coach Sport5: | Basketball |
| Coach Years6: | 1946–1949 |
| Coach Team6: | Johns Hopkins |
| Coach Sport7: | Lacrosse |
| Coach Years8: | 1936-1946 |
| Coach Team8: | St. Paul's School |
| Coach Years9: | 1947–1949 |
| Coach Team9: | Johns Hopkins |
| Coach Years10: | 1950–1975 |
| Coach Team10: | Hofstra |
| Coach Years11: | 1976–1978 |
| Coach Team11: | Hampden–Sydney |
| Admin Years1: | 1951–1975 |
| Admin Team1: | Hofstra |
| Overall Record: | 167–112–5 (college football) 22–35 (college basketball) 261–159–4 (college lacrosse) |
| Championships: | Football 1 Mason–Dixon (1948) |
Howard "Howdy" Myers Jr. (August 23, 1910 – February 12, 1980) was an American football, basketball and lacrosse coach and college athletics administrator. He served as head football coach for Johns Hopkins University from 1946 to 1949 and again in 1979 and at Hofstra University from 1950 to 1974, compiling a career college football record of 167–112–5. Myers was also the head lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins from 1946 to 1949, at Hofstra from 1950 to 1975, and at Hampden–Sydney College from 1976 to 1978, amassing a career college lacrosse record of 261–159–4. In addition, he was the head basketball coach at Johns Hopkins from 1946 to 1949, tallying a mark of 22–35. Myers coached lacrosse at St. Paul's School in Brooklandville, Maryland where he coached that team to four straight undefeated seasons, with a record of 61 wins and no losses. In 1971, Myers was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Myers died of heart failure on February 12, 1980, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, after having undergone cancer surgery a week earlier.[1]
Hofstra University honored Howdy Myers by placing a bust outside its main athletic complex.