College Career
University of Texas at El Paso (1939-1943)
• Lettered in basketball, football, swimming and gymnastics
• All-Conference in basketball
• Light heavyweight boxer, 13-0 record
• Selected to represent UTEP’s All Time Team, decade of the 40’s
• Inducted into the El Paso Sports Hall of Fame in 1974
Pro Basketball Career
• Phillip 66ers
• Pensacola Naval Air Station
Basketball Coaching Career
Southern Mississippi (1949-1954; 1962-1971)
• The winningest coach at Southern Mississippi with 246 wins and 147 losses
• First coach to select a black basketball player, Wilbert Jordan, at Southern Mississippi
• Inducted into the Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1979
• Authored 2 basketball books
Did You Know?
Lee Floyd coached Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer, Wendell Ladner at Southern Miss.
