William S. Taylor (American football)

For other people named William Taylor, see William Taylor (disambiguation).

William S. Taylor

Playing career
Football
1924–1925	Lincoln (PA)
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1926–1927	Samuel Huston
1928	Morgan
1929–1931	Lincoln (PA)
1933–1934	Bowie
1937–1941	Arkansas AM&N
Basketball
1928–1929	Morgan
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1929–1932	Lincoln (PA)
c. 1935	Bowie
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 SWAC (1926)

William S. Taylor was an American college football and college basketball coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas from 1926 to 1927, Morgan College (now known as Morgan State University) in 1928, Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1931, Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie (now known as Bowie State University), and Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (Arkansas AM&N) (now known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) from 1937 to 1941. Taylor was also the athletic director at Lincoln from 1929 to 1932.^[1]

Taylor's 1926 Samuel Huston team won the Southwestern Athletic Conference title.^[2] in 1937, Taylor married Amber B. L. Greene. The two mad met at Bowie State Normal School while Taylor served as athletic director and Green was the school's librarian.^[3]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Samuel Huston Dragons (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (1926–1927)
1926	Samuel Huston	7–0	5–0	1st
1927	Samuel Huston		2–3	4th
Samuel Huston:			7–3
Morgan Bears (Independent) (1928)
1928	Morgan	3–4–2
Morgan:		3–4–2
Lincoln Lions (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1929–1931)
1929	Lincoln	6–2–1	4–2–1	3rd
1930	Lincoln	4–4–1	4–4–1
1931	Lincoln	7–3	7–1
Lincoln:		17–9–2	16–7–2
Bowie Bulldogs (Middle Atlantic Athletic Association) (1933–1934)
1933	Bowie
1934	Bowie
Bowie:
Arkansas AM&N Lions (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (1937–1940)
1937	Arkansas AM&N	7–0–3	3–0–3	2nd
1938	Arkansas AM&N	4–4–1	2–3–1	T–4th
1939	Arkansas AM&N	6–3–1	3–2–1	T–2nd
1940	Arkansas AM&N	3–8	0–6	7th
1941	Arkansas AM&N	1–7–1	0–5–1	T–6th
Arkansas AM&N:		21–22–6	8–16–6
Total:
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

References

1. "Bill Taylor Lincoln Football Coach is Out". California Eagle. Los Angeles, California. June 24, 1932. p. 9. Retrieved July 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
2. Mohr, Dean (December 11, 1926). "Samuel Houston Declared Winner Of Southwestern Conference Grid Title". Pittsburgh Courier. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 13. Retrieved December 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com .
3. "Bill Taylor Weds Miss Amber Greene". The Afro-American. Baltimore, Maryland. September 25, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved December 19, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .