Tillman served as the head football coach at the Municipal University of Wichita—now Wichita State University —from 1955 to 1956, compiling a record of 11–8–1.
[1] Tillman's team won a share of the Missouri Valley Conference championship in 1955 with a record of 7–2–1.
[2] Tillman served briefly as an assistant coach at the University of Washington in the spring of 1957.
He resigned in April to go into private business in Wichita, Kansas.
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