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American football coach

Arthur J. Willis
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1924	Western (KS)
1925	Langston
1928	Fisk (assistant)
1929	Prairie View A&M

Arthur J. Willis was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Prairie View Normal and Industrial College—now known as Prairie View A&M University—in Prairie View, Texas in 1929. Willis was the director of physical education and assistant coach at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee the previous year. He was previously been head coach at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma. In 1924, Willis was the head football coach at Western University in Kansas.

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Prairie View Panthers (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (1929)
1929	Prairie View	7–2–2	1–1–2	2nd	L Prairie View
Prairie View:		7–2–2	1–1–2
Total:

v t e Langston Lions head football coaches
Unknown (1909) No team (1910–1921) Unknown (1922–1924) Arthur J. Willis (1925) W. E. Anderson (1926–1929) Caesar Felton Gayles (1930–1957) Tim Crisp (1958–1969) Albert Schoats (1970–1977) Charles W. Moore (1978) Roosevelt Nivens (1979–1981) Willie Hurte (1982–1985) Ron Aiken (1986–1990) Greg Johnson (1991–1996) Theodore Alexander (1997–2001) Harold E. Johnson (2002–2003) Greg Johnson (2004–2010) Mickey Joseph (2011–2012) Dwone S. Sanders (2013–2015) Quinton Morgan (2015– )

v t e Prairie View A&M Panthers head football coaches
Unknown (1907) No team (1908–1919) Unknown (1920) No team (1921–1922) Henry B. Hucles (1923–1925) James H. Law (1926–1928) Arthur J. Willis (1929) Sam B. Taylor (1930–1943) L. T. Walker (1944) Billy Nicks (1945–1947) Fred T. Long (1948) James A. Stevens (1949–1951) Billy Nicks (1952–1965) Hoover J. Wright (1966–1968) Alexander Durley (1969–1970) Jim Hillyer (1971) Theophilus Danzy (1972) Hoover J. Wright (1973–1979) Cornelius Cooper (1980–1981) James McKinley (1982–1983) Conway Hayman (1984–1987) Haney Catchings (1987–1989) No team (1990) Ronald Beard (1991–1994) Hensley Sapenter (1995–1996) Greg Johnson (1997–1998) Clifton Gilliard (1999) Larry Dorsey (2000–2002) C. L. Whittington (2003) Henry Frazier III (2004–2010) Heishma Northern (2011–2014) Willie Simmons (2015–2017) Eric Dooley (2018–2021) Bubba McDowell (2022–2024) Tremaine Jackson (2025– )

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