Garland Nevitt


Garland "Chief" Nevitt was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Central [Michigan University] for one season in 1919, compiling a record of 2–2–3. He also coached the basketball team at Central Michigan that year to a 10–5 record. He played Minor League Baseball with the Battle Creek Crickets of the Southern Michigan League from 1911 to 1913 and with the St. Thomas Saints of the Canadian League from 1914 to 1915. Nevitt was a vegetarian and non-smoker.

Early life

A member of the Lenape tribe who also had African-American heritage, Nevitt was born in 1887 in Kansas.

Head coaching record

College football