He graduated from the University of Utah where he lettered in football (playing as a running back), basketball, baseball, and track.

Floyd played football for Ott at Montana State, and went on to a long coaching career at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mitt played college football at Utah and Chicago as a quarterback and later coached at Texas and for the Racine Cardinals.

[7] Between 1925 and 1948, Romney organized and operated a summer school for football and basketball coaches that he ran in Logan, Utah.

Noteworthy football speakers included Knute Rockne, Pop Warner, Pappy Waldorf, Fritz Crisler, Clark Schaunnessy and Henry Frankel.

On February 5, 1969, Romney died from a heart attack at his home in Salt Lake City, one week before his 74th birthday, at the age of 73.