American football player and coach
Will Hill Acker (December 17, 1899 – July 28, 1951) was an American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at East Texas State Teachers College—now known as Texas A&amp;M University–Commerce—from 1929 to 1930. Acker was also head basketball coach at East Texas State from 1928 to 1930 and the school's athletic director from 1930 to 1949.
Personal life.
Acker was born December 17, 1899, in Ellis County, Texas, to Walter L. Acker and Pearl Hill.
In 1918, during World War I, Acker belonged to the Student Army Training Corps while at Christian College of North Texas.
Acker died on July 28, 1951, at a hospital in Greenville, Texas, from injuries he sustained four days earlier in an automobile accident.
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