Garland "Chief" Nevitt (February 28, 1887 – August 1970)[1] was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach.

He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan University for one season in 1919, compiling a record of 2–2–3.

He also coached the basketball team at Central Michigan that year to a 10–5 record.

[2] A member of the Lenape tribe who also had African-American heritage, Nevitt was born in 1887 in Kansas.

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