Walter Hudson "Billy" Watkins (February 23, 1878 – April 6, 1937) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

coach. He served as the head football coach at

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from 1900 to 1901, compiling a record of 6–3–1. He also coached the

Vanderbilt Commodores The Vanderbilt Commodores are the college athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt fields 16 varsity teams (6 men's teams and 10 women's team ...

for two seasons from 1901 to 1902, compiling a record of 14–2–1. Watkins attended

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, where he was a prominent member of the

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

team and first substitute on the

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team. He later worked as an attorney.

Head coaching record

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* 1878 births 1937 deaths Auburn Tigers football coaches Princeton Tigers baseball players Princeton Tigers football players Vanderbilt Commodores football coaches Sportspeople from Meridian, Mississippi {{1900s-collegefootball-coach-stub