Millard Naylor

Millard Albert Naylor (December 19, 1901 – April 16, 1979) was an American sports coach. He had a 32-season stint as football coach at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware, and was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 1979.

Early life Naylor was born on December 19, 1901, in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended Howard High School in Wilmington, graduating in 1920. Howard had no athletic program at the time, and Naylor played baseball as a second baseman and shortstop for the local Wilmington Giants and Wilmington Black Sox.

Naylor began attending Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1920, where he played football and baseball for four years.

Career In 1925, Naylor was a teacher at the Booker T. Washington School. The following year, he returned to Howard High School as a teacher and created the football program. He went on to coach football, baseball, basketball and track and field. When he started the team, they had no equipment, money, or even a football; Naylor was able to get a used football and some equipment from the University of Delaware. He was known as the state's "dean of coaching" and was the longest-tenured coach in the state by his retirement following the 1957 season. His overall record as football coach was 132–91–24, including 22 teams with winning records, two undefeated seasons (1926 and 1939) and six championships; Howard was the 1933 South Atlantic Conference champion, 1939, 1940 and 1941 North Division champions, 1948 city champions, 1952 city champions and 1952 county champions. He remained a teacher and served as Howard's athletic director for three years after his retirement as football coach.