Louis L. Watson | |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1895 |
Birth Place: | Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1919–1920 |
Player Team1: | Springfield |
Coach Years1: | 1921–1922 |
Coach Team1: | Virginia Normal |
Coach Years2: | 1923 |
Coach Team2: | Howard |
Coach Years3: | 1925–1927 |
Coach Team3: | Howard |
Coach Years4: | 1928– |
Coach Team4: | Bordentown (NJ) |
Admin Team1: | Howard |
Admin Years2: | 1945–? |
Admin Team2: | Howard |
Overall Record: | 29–8–6 (college) |
Championships: | 3 black college national (1923, 1925–1926) |
Louis Lee Watson (born April 9, 1895) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute—now known as Virginia State University–from 1921 to 1922 and at Howard University in 1923 and from 1925 to 1927.[1] Watson graduated from Howard in 1917 and played football at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919 and 1920.[2]
In 1928, Watson began coaching at the Bordentown School in Bordentown, New Jersey.[3] He returned to Howard in 1945 as athletic director.[4]