Arthur J. Willis

Biography

Arthur J. Willis was an American college football coach and athletics administrator. He reportedly began coaching college football at least as early as 1914, and in 1924, he was the head football coach at Western University in Kansas. The following year, he coached the football team at Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University—now known as Langston University. In 1926, he coached a semi-professional football team in Liberty, Missouri. Willis was the director of physical education and assistant coach at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee before moving on to Prairie View Normal and Industrial College—now known as Prairie View A&M University—in Prairie View, Texas, where he was head football coach in 1929.

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