Lester Watt

Lester Watt
Biographical details
Born(1894-04-02)April 2, 1894
Taylor County, Iowa, U.S.
DiedJanuary 19, 1952(1952-01-19) (aged 57)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1916–1918Grinnell
Position(s)Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919–1925Argentine High School (KS)
1926Theodore Roosevelt HS (IA)
1927–1935Grinnell
1939–1941Grinnell HS (IA)
Basketball
1919–1926Argentine High School (KS)
1939–1942Grinnell HS (IA)
Head coaching record
Overall27–42–7 (college football)

Lester Leighton "Fuzz" Watt (April 2, 1894 – January 19, 1952) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa from 1927 to 1935, compiling a record of 27–42–7. Watt also coached track and field and golf as Grinnell and was an assistant coach in baseball.

Watt starred in athletics in high school in Villisca, Iowa and then at Grinnell, where he played college football as a quarterback. Watt coached at Argentine High School in Kansas City, Missouri from 1919 to 1926 and then at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa for a year before returning to Grinnell in 1927. Watt resigned from his post at Grinnell in early 1936 to enter business with the sporting goods department of L. H. Kurtz Co. In 1939, he was hired as football and basketball coach at Grinnell High School.

Watt died on January 19, 1952, at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.