Ward H Haylett was an American football, basketball, track and field, and cross country running coach.
12 Facts About Ward Haylett
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Ward Haylett was enshrined in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1979.
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Ward Haylett earned 16 letters in several sports at Doane.
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Ward Haylett was the center on the basketball team, the quarterback on the football team, a pitcher for the baseball team and a quarter-mile and half-mile sprinter for the track team.
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Ward Haylett then coached track for the next five years at Doane College.
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In 1928, Ward Haylett moved to Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, where he coached track for the next 35 years, from 1928 to 1963.
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Ward Haylett highlighted his coaching career by serving as an assistant coach on the 1948 Olympic team.
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Ward Haylett was head coach of the US track and field team for the test Pan-American Games in 1937, and a three-time member of the United States Olympic Committee.
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Ward Haylett was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame.
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Ward Haylett was the 20th head football coach at Doane College.
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Ward Haylett held that position for four seasons, from 1924 until 1927.
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Fifteen years after coaching his last college football game at Doane, Ward Haylett returned to the sidelines during a manpower shortage in World War II, becoming the 19th head football coach for the Kansas State Wildcats from 1942 until 1944.