Gus Miller
# Gus Miller

William Augustus Miller (August 3, 1900 – February 16, 1992) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Texas Wesleyan College—now known as Texas Wesleyan University—in Fort Worth, Texas from 1937 to 1941 and West Texas State Teachers College—now known as West Texas A&M University—in Canyon, Texas–from 1942 to 1946, compiling a career college football coaching record of 41–32–3. Miller was also the head basketball coach at Texas Wesleyan from 1947 to 1942 and West Texas State from 1942 to 1957, tallying a career college basketball coaching mark of 283–154. His basketball teams won three Border Conference championships and made an appearance in the 1955 NCAA basketball tournament.

Miller coached at Trinidad High School in Trinidad, Colorado for 10 years before he was hired at Texas Wesleyan in 1937.

Miller was born in Pine Grove, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree from West Texas State and a master's degree from Texas Tech University. He died on February 16, 1992, at a hospital in Denton, Texas.

## Head coaching record

### College football

| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Texas Wesleyan Rams (Texas Conference) (1937–1941) ||||||
| 1937 | Texas Wesleyan | 6–3 | 3–2 | 4th |
| 1938 | Texas Wesleyan | 3–4–1 | 2–3 | 6th |
| 1939 | Texas Wesleyan | 4–5–2 | 2–2–1 | T–5th |
| 1940 | Texas Wesleyan | 7–2 | 5–1 | T–1st |
| 1941 | Texas Wesleyan | 5–3 | 5–1 | T–2nd |
| Texas Wesleyan: | Texas Wesleyan: | 25–17–3 | 17–9–1 | |
| West Texas State Buffaloes (Border Conference) (1942–1946) ||||||
| 1942 | West Texas State | 7–2 | 5–2 | 3rd |
| 1943 | No team—World War II | | | |
| 1944 | West Texas State | 4–3 | 1–1 | 2nd |
| 1945 | West Texas State | 2–6 | 0–2 | 3rd |
| 1946 | West Texas State | 3–4 | 2–3 | |
| West Texas State: | West Texas State: | 16–15 | 8–8 | |
| Total: | Total: | 41–32–3 | | |

### College basketball

Statistics overview :

| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Texas Wesleyan Rams (Texas Conference) (1937–1941) ||||||
| 1937–38 | Texas Wesleyan | 13–1 | 12–0 | 1st | |
| 1938–39 | Texas Wesleyan | 19–7 | 9–2 | 3rd | |
| 1939–40 | Texas Wesleyan | 20–3 | 12–0 | 1st | NAIA Elite Eight |
| 1940–41 | Texas Wesleyan | 21–2 | 12–0 | 1st | NAIA Elite Eight |
| 1941–42 | Texas Wesleyan | 13–4 | 12–0 | 1st | NAIA First Round |
| Texas Wesleyan: | Texas Wesleyan: | 86–17 (.835) | 57–2 (.966) | | |
| West Texas State Buffaloes (Border Conference) (1942–1957) ||||||
| 1942–43 | West Texas State | 16–7 | 12–0 | 1st | |
| 1943–44 | No team—World War II | | | | |
| 1944–45 | West Texas State | 16–10 | 5–3 | | |
| 1945–46 | West Texas State | 19–8 | 9–3 | | |
| 1946–47 | West Texas State | 13–11 | 8–8 | | |
| 1947–48 | West Texas State | 11–13 | 7–9 | | |
| 1948–49 | West Texas State | 16–7 | 7–7 | | |
| 1949–50 | West Texas State | 19–10 | 9–5 | | |
| 1950–51 | West Texas State | 14–12 | 9–7 | | |
| 1951–52 | West Texas State | 19–8 | 12–2 | 1st | |
| 1952–53 | West Texas State | 8–13 | 5–9 | | |
| 1953–54 | West Texas State | 13–7 | 9–3 | | |
| 1954–55 | West Texas State | 15–7 | 9–3 | 1st | NCAA first round |
| 1955–56 | West Texas State | 12–10 | 6–6 | | |
| 1956–57 | West Texas State | 6–14 | 3–7 | | |
| West Texas A&M: | West Texas A&M: | 197–137 (.590) | 110–72 (.604) | | |
| Total: | Total: | 283–154 (.648) | | | |
| National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||
