Coach (1942...1950) Warren Douglas
Warren Douglas coached at UL for a total of seven sports seasons beginning in 1942. His coaching stint at UL began at the raw age of eighteen.
Between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one he is not mentioned it is believed he performed service duty in WWII.
He returned to UL in 1946 at seasoned age of twenty-two and for the next four seasons served as an assistant football coach. A four year stint in which UL did not have a losing season and had an overall record of 24-11-1
During a portion of this same period of time (1948-1950) coach Warren Douglas served as a baseball assistant to coach Raymond Didier.
This baseball period was a time in which UL also succeeded in not having a losing season. For those three seasons UL finished 2nd, 1st, and 1st in the Gulf States Conference. The record for 1949 is unavailable, but the 18-9 record of 1948 and the 20-7 record of 1950 were noted by no more than three conference losses in any single season.
At the age of 27 Warren Douglas left UL only to surface a year later in as the head football coach for the Marksville Louisiana High School, Marksville Tigers.
It wasn't long before Warren Douglas became a legend for the Tigers of Marksville. Through the thick and thin era of shorter seasons he averaged 6.1 wins per season with a total of 122 victories on his resume between 1952 and 1971. Eventually they named a stadium after him.
He died as the principal of the school in April 1979, succumbing to cancer at the young age of 55.
Sixteen years after his death, he was inducted into the Louisiana Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
1949 Warran Douglas Photo. Southwestern Louisiana Institute Campus
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