James Lytle (coach)

James E. Lytle Jr. was an American football, basketball, baseball, and golf coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Morris Brown College in Atlanta in 1927, Shaw University from 1928 to 1929 and again from 1934 to 1954, and Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College —now known as University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff—from 1930 to 1931. Lytle was also the athletic director at Shaw from 1957 to 1978.
Lytle graduated from Shaw in 1921 and later earned a Master of Arts degree in physical education from Columbia University.
In 1975, Lytle was the first person inducted into the Shaw University Athletic Hall of Fame. In 1993, he was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Lytle died on July 17, 1987, following an illness.