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W. H. Lyon

American college football coach

Died when: 84 years 200 days (1014 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

W. H. Lyon

William Hillyer Lyon (September 15, 1872 – April 3, 1957) was an American football coach.He served as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1899.

During his one-season tenure at Ole Miss, Lyon compiled an overall record of three wins and four losses (3–4).Lyon was born in 1872 in Boonton, New Jersey.

He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.In 1906, Lyon was working for a lumber company in Bridgeport, Connecticut as a travelling salesman.

By the time of World War I, Lyon living in Bridgeport working as an accountant for the United States Government.

He died in Stamford in 1957.


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