Utah State University Athletics

CHUCK MILLS
Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
Sport: Head Football Coach
Years: 1967-72

At the age of 38, Chuck Mills was hired as Utah State University's 14th head football coach after serving as an assistant coach at the University of Arizona for one season. Mills coached at Utah State for six seasons, leading the Aggies to an overall record of 38-23-1 (.621), including a 17-7 (.708) home mark. During his USU career, Mills was 8-4 against USU's in-state rivals BYU and Utah, and his 38 career wins still rank second all-time in school history. During his six years as Utah State's head coach, which is tied for the fourth-longest tenure in school history, Mills led the Aggies to four winning seasons including back-to-back 8-3 campaigns in 1971 and 1972. Mills graduated from Illinois State University in 1950 and spent the next five years as a coach at the high school ranks in his hometown of Chicago, while at the same time coaching a semi-pro team that posted a 30-0-3 record in two seasons. In 1956 he served as a line coach at Citrus Junior College in Azusa, Calif., and then spent five seasons as the head football and wrestling coach at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Mills then moved to Pennsylvania where he was the head coach at Indiana (Pa.) University for two seasons, followed by a one-year stint as the head coach for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y.