By Sam Neff
sam@newsroom.byu.edu
W. Floyd Millet, BYU's athletic director from 1963 to 1970, died Saturday, June 17. He was 88.
During Millet's career at BYU he marked several important milestones. In 1942 Millet coached the first BYU football team to beat the University of Utah. It was the only year Millet coached the football team.
The same year Millet coached the BYU basketball team, the first Cougar basketball team invited to play in Madison Square Garden. Millet coached basketball from 1942 through 1949.
Millet's career at BYU began when he attended BYU on athletic scholarship from 1931 through 1934. During this time he earned nine varsity letters in football, basketball and track.
His senior year, Millet received the J. Edwin Stein Award as the outstanding scholar-athlete at BYU.
In 1949, Millet left athletics to pursue business opportunities in Salt Lake City. He returned to BYU in 1963 as athletic director.
As athletic director Millet established the National Cougar Club and oversaw the construction of Cougar Stadium and the Marriott Center, then the largest college basketball venue in the nation.
In 1976 Millet was inducted into the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame.
For 19 years Millet was a member of the YMMIA General Board of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as chairman of the All-Church Athletic Committee for five of those years.
Mike Millet, son, said his father was 'a hardworker and a gentleman athlete.'
Services will be held Wednesday, June 21, at noon at the Oak Hills 9th Ward Chapel, 1960 N. 1500 East, Provo. Friends may call at Berg Mortuary, 185 E. Center St., Provo, 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, or at the chapel one hour prior to the services. Interment will be at Provo City Cemetery.