L. W. Riess

L. W. Riess
Riess cropped from the 1909 Hampden–Sydney football team photo
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1887-10-19)October 19, 1887 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	January 5, 1946(1946-01-05) (aged 58) Antwerp, Belgium
Alma mater	Swarthmore College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1908–1909 1911 Basketball 1908–1912 Baseball 1912	Hampden–Sydney Virginia Tech Hampden–Sydney Virginia Tech
Head coaching record
Overall	14–9–2 (football) 3–6 (basketball) 9–9 (baseball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Lewis William "Lew" Riess (October 19, 1887 – January 5, 1946) an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Hampden–Sydney College from 1908 to 1910 and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1911, compiling a career college football record of 14–9–2. Riess was also the head basketball coach at Hampden–Sydney from 1908 to 1912, amassing a record of 3–6, and the head baseball coach at Virginia Tech in 1912, tally a mark of 9–9. He died of a heart attack in 1946 in Belgium.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference
Hampden–Sydney Tigers () (1908–1909)
1908	Hampden–Sydney	5–4
1909	Hampden–Sydney	3–4
Hampden–Sydney:		8–8
Virginia Tech Hokies (South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1911)
1911	Virginia Tech	6–1–2	2–0–2
Virginia Tech:		6–1–2	2–0–2
Total:		14–9–2

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References

Hampden–Sydney Tigers head football coaches

William F. Bull (1894)
W. J. King (1895)
George H. Denny (1896)
Eugene C. Caldwell (1897)
Alfred S. Caldwell (1898)
Harry L. Shaner (1899–1900)
E. S. Martin (1901)
J. B. Parrish (1902)
Unknown (1903–1904)
Russel James (1905)
O. M. Gardner (1906)
James A. Nutter (1907)
L. W. Riess (1908–1909)
Kemper Yancey (1910)
B. R. Cecil (1911)
Charles A. Bernier (1912–1916)
M. C. Bowling (1917)
No coach (1918)
William L. Younger (1919)
Ed Roundy (1920–1922)
Charles A. Bernier (1923–1938)
Herman E. Smith (1939–1941)
Frank Summers (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Herman E. Smith (1946)
Morgan Tiller (1947–1950)
Jim Hickey (1951–1955)
Bob Thalman (1956–1959)
J. Stokeley Fulton (1960–1984)
Carmen Palladino (1985)
Joe Bush (1986–1996)
Phil Culicerto (1997–1999)
Marty Favret (2000– )

Virginia Tech Hokies head football coaches

E. A. Smyth (1892–1893)
Joseph Massie (1894)
Art C. Jones (1895–1896)
Charles Firth (1897)
J. Lewis Ingles (1898)
James Morrison (1899)
Eugene Davis (1900)
A. B. Morrison, Jr. (1901)
R. R. Brown (1902)
Charles Augustus Lueder (1903)
John C. O'Connor (1904)
Sally Miles (1905–1906)
C. R. Williams (1907)
R. M. Brown (1908)
Branch Bocock (1909–1910)
L. W. Riess (1911)
Branch Bocock (1912–1915)
Jack E. Ingersoll (1916)
Charles A. Bernier (1917–1919)
Stanley Sutton (1920)
B. C. Cubbage (1921–1925)
Andy Gustafson (1926–1929)
Orville Neale (1930–1931)
Henry Redd (1932–1940)
James Kitts (1941)
Herbert McEver & Sumner D. Tilson (1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Herbert McEver (1945)
James Kitts (1946–1947)
Robert McNeish (1948–1950)
Frank Moseley (1951–1960)
Jerry Claiborne (1961–1970)
Charlie Coffey (1971–1973)
Jimmy Sharpe (1974–1977)
Bill Dooley (1978–1986)
Frank Beamer (1987– )

Virginia Tech Hokies head baseball coaches

Unknown (1892–1893)
No team (1894)
James M. McJames (1895)
Unknown (1896)
Lipep (1897)
Unknown (1898)
No team (1899)
A. B. Morrison, Jr. (1900–1901)
Unknown (1902)
Albert L. Orth (1903)
R. R. Brown (1904)
Knox (1905)
S. S. Eckerstone (1906–1907)
Sally Miles (1908)
R. M. Brown (1909)
Branch Bocock (1910–1911)
L. W. Riess (1912)
Sally Miles (1913)
Branch Bocock (1914)
R. B. Prince (1915)
Bill Breitenstein (1916–1917)
Charles Bernier (1918–1920)
William L. Younger (1921–1923)
George S. Kircher (1924–1932)
Herbert McEver (1933–1939)
Gerald Flake Laird (1940–1944)
George S. Proctor (1945–1947)
Gerald Flake Laird (1948–1973)
Bob Humphreys (1974–1978)
Chuck Hartman (1979–2006)
Pete Hughes (2007– )

Persondata
Name	Riess, L. W.
Alternative names	Riess, Lewis William
Short description	American football, basketball, baseball coach
Date of birth	October 19, 1887
Place of birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of death	January 5, 1946
Place of death	Belgium

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