Floyd Millet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Floyd Millet

American football player and coach, basketball player and coach, track and field athlete and coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Mesa, Arizona, United States

Date of Death: 17-Jun-2000

Profession: basketball coach, athletics competitor, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

William Floyd Millet (October 17, 1911 – June 17, 2000) was an American football and basketball player, track and field athlete, coach of various sports, and college athletics administrator.
Millet served as the head football coach at Brigham Young University (BYU) for one season in 1942, tallying a mark of 2–5.
He was the head basketball coach at BYU from 1941 to 1949, compiling a record of 104–77.
From 1963 to 1970, he served as the school's athletic director. Millet was born in Mesa, Arizona and graduated from Mesa High School there.
After attending Gila Junior College—now known as Eastern Arizona College—Thatcher, Arizona, he moved on to BYU, where he lettered in basketball, football, and track, before graduating in 1934.
In football and basketball, he earned all-conference honors.
Millet received a master's degree from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1939. Millet began his coaching career at Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah, where he spent three years as head coach in football and baseball and an assistant in basketball.
He returned to BYU in 1937 as an assistant football coach.