The UH community lost a giant on Wednesday.
Bill Yeoman, the longest tenured head coach in the Houston football program’s history, a program pioneer and leader on campus, died aged 92 of pneumonia and kidney failure.
Yeoman was born Dec. 26, 1927 in Elnora, Indiana. Although not a native Texans, Yeoman found his way to the Lone Star State after graduating from Glendale High School in Arizona before attending Texas A&M University in 1945 as a freshman. His first stint in Texas quickly was cut short after he received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, where he played at center for the Black Knights football team from 1946-48.