Howdy Myers
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Howdy Myers
| image = Howdy Myers.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|8|23}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|2|12|1910|8|23}}
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1946–1949
| coach_team2 = Johns Hopkins
| coach_years3 = 1950–1974
| coach_team3 = Hofstra
| coach_years4 = 1979
| coach_team4 = Johns Hopkins
| coach_sport5 = Basketball
| coach_years6 = 1946–1949
| coach_team6 = Johns Hopkins
| coach_sport7 = Lacrosse
| coach_years8 = 1936-1946
| coach_team8 = St. Paul's School
| coach_years9 = 1947–1949
| coach_team9 = Johns Hopkins
| coach_years10 = 1950–1975
| coach_team10 = Hofstra
| coach_years11 = 1976–1978
| coach_team11 = Hampden–Sydney
| admin_years1 = 1951–1975
| admin_team1 = Hofstra
| overall_record = 167–112–5 (college football)
22–35 (college basketball)
261–159–4 (college lacrosse)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships = Football
1 Mason–Dixon (1948)
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Howard "Howdy" Myers Jr. (August 23, 1910 – February 12, 1980) was an American football, basketball and lacrosse coach and college athletics administrator. He served as head football coach for Johns Hopkins University from 1946 to 1949 and again in 1979 and at Hofstra University from 1950 to 1974, compiling a career college football record of 167–112–5. Myers was also the head lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins from 1946 to 1949, at Hofstra from 1950 to 1975, and at Hampden–Sydney College from 1976 to 1978, amassing a career college lacrosse record of 261–159–4. In addition, he was the head basketball coach at Johns Hopkins from 1946 to 1949, tallying a mark of 22–35. Myers coached lacrosse at St. Paul's School in Brooklandville, Maryland where he coached that team to four straight undefeated seasons, with a record of 61 wins and no losses. In 1971, Myers was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Myers died of heart failure on February 12, 1980, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, after having undergone cancer surgery a week earlier.{{cite news |author= |title=Myers, coach here, dies at 69 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36627570/the_baltimore_sun/ |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore, Maryland |date=February 13, 1980 |page=C1 |access-date=October 2, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=College football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
| conf = Mason–Dixon Conference
| startyear = 1946
| endyear = 1949
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1946
| name = Johns Hopkins
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 2–0
| confstanding = 2nd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1947
| name = Johns Hopkins
| overall = 5–2–1
| conference = 2–1–1
| confstanding = 3rd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1948
| name = Johns Hopkins
| overall = 7–1
| conference = 3–0
| confstanding = 1st
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Johns Hopkins
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 2–1
| confstanding = T–2nd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Hofstra Flying Dutchmen
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1950
| endyear = 1959
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 2–6
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1951
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 6–2–1
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1952
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 8–1
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1953
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 6–3
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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| year = 1954
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 7–2
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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| championship =
| year = 1955
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 3–6
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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| championship =
| year = 1956
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 7–3
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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| championship =
| year = 1957
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 9–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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| championship =
| year = 1958
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 6–4
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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| championship =
| year = 1959
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 9–0
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Hofstra Flying Dutchmen
| conf = Middle Atlantic Conference
| startyear = 1960
| endyear = 1969
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1960
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 7–1–1
| conference = 2–0
| confstanding = N/A (Northern College)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1961
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 7–2
| conference = 2–0
| confstanding = N/A (Northern College)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1962
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 1–0
| confstanding = N/A (Northern College)
| bowlname = Cement Bowl
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1963
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 3–6
| conference = 0–0
| confstanding = N/A (Northern College)
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1964
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 6–3–1
| conference = 0–3–1
| confstanding = T–6th (University)
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1965
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 4–1
| confstanding = 2nd (University)
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1966
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 2–8
| conference = 1–3
| confstanding = 6th (University)
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1967
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd (University)
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1968
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 5–5
| conference = 1–3
| confstanding = 6th (University)
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1969
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 0–10
| conference = 0–5
| confstanding = 7th (University)
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Hofstra Flying Dutchmen
| conf = NCAA College Division independent
| startyear = 1970
| endyear = 1971
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1970
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 5–5
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1971
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 5–6
| conference =
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Hofstra Flying Dutchmen
| conf = Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference
| startyear = 1972
| endyear = 1975
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1972
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 5–6
| conference = 1–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1973
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 8–3
| conference = 4–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1974
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 1–9–1
| conference = 0–4–1
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Hofstra
| overall = 141–98–4
| confrecord = 19–24–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
| conf = Middle Atlantic Conference
| startyear = 1979
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1979
| name = Johns Hopkins
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 4–4 (Southern)
| confstanding = T–6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Johns Hopkins
| overall = 26–14–1
| confrecord = 13–6–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 167–112–5
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
Honors
Hofstra University honored Howdy Myers by placing a bust outside its main athletic complex.
File:Bust on Hofstra University Campus Honoring Howdy Meyers.jpg
See also
References
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