Louis L. Watson

Louis Lee Watson (April 9, 1895 – July 22, 1952) 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 Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919 and 1920.

Watson was born on April 9, 1895, in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended M Street High School in Washington, D.C. before earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard in 1917. During World War I, Watson served as an officer in the United States Army at Fort Dix and Camp Lee. He was discharged from military service in 1919 with the rank of captain.

In 1928, Watson began coaching at the Bordentown School in Bordentown, New Jersey. He returned to Howard in 1945 as athletic director.

Watson died on July 22, 1952, following an illness of seven years.