Roy Everett Tillotson (April 1, 1891 – August 30, 1962) was an American coach and athletic trainer who coached at

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, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, and the University of Toledo. Tillotson was born in Oberlin, Ohio, where he graduated from Oberlin High School in 1910 and

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in 1916. He later earned an M.S. degree at Indiana University. After teaching physical education and coaching at

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in Pittsburgh for four years, he became a coach at Hiram College in 1920. He was head basketball coach at Miami University from 1924 until 1930, when he began a 19-year career at Franklin College. He became equipment manager and trainer at the University of Toledo in 1950, retiring the year before his death. Tillotson died on August 30, 1962, at St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago, Indiana, after suffering a heart attack. He and is buried alongside his wife, Mabelle, at Greenlawn Cemetery in Franklin, Indiana.

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