Louis L. Watson
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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. Watson graduated from Howard in 1917 and played football at
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in 1919 and 1920. In 1928, Watson began coaching at the Bordentown School in Bordentown, New Jersey. He returned to Howard in 1945 as athletic director.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Louis L. 1895 births Year of death missing Howard Bison athletic directors Howard Bison football coaches Springfield Pride football players Virginia State Trojans football coaches High school football coaches in New Jersey Howard University alumni Players of American football from Alexandria, Virginia African-American coaches of American football African-American college athletic directors in the United States 20th-century African-American sportspeople