There he installed a pass-oriented version of the T-formation and, in his first year, engineered a turnaround from a 1–7–1 record to a perfect 10–0 season and Pacific Coast Conference championship.

[2] That year, Mont was named an honorable mention All-American and ranked as the number-three passer in the nation.

[7] Mont put his college career on hold to join the United States Army as an infantryman and served in the Second World War.

After returning to the United States, he coached the basketball and football teams at Fort Benning, Georgia.

[1] Mont returned to his alma mater in 1951 to become the Maryland backfield coach under Jim Tatum, and he held that position through the 1955 season.

During that time, he also worked with the U.S. Marine Corps' Parris Island football team, where he helped implement a Split-T offense in 1954.

Mont worked summers with the football team of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City from 1953 to 1955.

[2][12] Mont had great difficulty recruiting to the same standard that his predecessor had,[13] but managed to secure Rod Breedlove, a highly touted guard prospect.

On October 19, at Byrd Stadium, Maryland met the North Carolina team led by their former head coach.

[14] In the first quarter, Maryland halfback Howard Dare fumbled and North Carolina linebacker Jack Lineberger recovered the ball on the Terrapins' 44-yard line.

In the third quarter, Maryland gained excellent field position when Goff received a bad punt snap and the Terps took over on the Carolina 38-yard line.

In 1959, Mont accepted a job as head coach and a professor of physical education at DePauw University.

[16] In the rivalry with Wabash College, the Monon Bell Classic, Mont's teams posted a 12–5–1 record.

[18] In 1973, he was inducted into the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame at the Hit and Run Club at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

[1] In 1977, Mont retired as head coach to devote his full energy to his duties as athletic director.