Lew Riess

Lewis William Riess (October 19, 1887 – January 4, 1946) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Hampden–Sydney College from 1908 to 1910 and at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) — now known as Virginia Tech — in 1911, and Randolph–Macon College from 1912 to 1917, compiling a career college football record of 33–39–4. 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 VPI in 1912, tallying a mark of 9–9.

Lew Riess
Riess cropped from the 1909 Hampden–Sydney football team photo
Biographical details
Born(1887-10-19)October 19, 1887
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJanuary 4, 1946(1946-01-04) (aged 58)
Antwerp, Belgium
Alma materSwarthmore College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1908–1909Hampden–Sydney
1911VPI
1912—1917Randolph–Macon
Basketball
1908–1912Hampden–Sydney
Baseball
1912VPI
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1910VPI
c. 1915Randolph–Macon
Head coaching record
Overall33–39–4 (football)
3–6 (basketball)
9–9 (baseball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football
2 EVIAA (1908, 1912)

Riess left Randolph–Macon in December 1917 to become the athletic director of a United States Army aviation camp in Jacksonville, Florida.[1] He served as the activity secretary of the Army-Navy YMCA in Honolulu from 1938 to 1941. He died on January 4, 1946, in Belgium.[2]

Head coaching record

Football
Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Hampden–Sydney Tigers (Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1908–1909)
1908 Hampden–Sydney 5–42–1T–1st
1909 Hampden–Sydney 3–41–2T–3rd
Hampden–Sydney: 8–83–3
VPI (Independent) (1911)
1911 VPI 6–1–2
VPI: 6–1–2
Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets (Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1912–1917)
1912 Randolph–Macon 5–23–01st
1913 Randolph–Macon 4–41–23rd
1914 Randolph–Macon 5–53–3T–2nd
1915 Randolph–Macon 4–5–13–2–1T–2nd
1916 Randolph–Macon 1–7–11–4–1T–3rd
1917 Randolph–Macon 0–70–64th
Randolph–Macon: 19–30–211–17–2
Total:33–39–4
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

References
  1. "Lew Riess Will Coach Soldiers In Athletics". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Richmond, Virginia. December 16, 1917. p. 27. Retrieved August 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  2. "Lew Riess' Death In ETO Revealed". The Honolulu Advertiser. Honolulu, Hawaii. January 12, 1946. p. 2. Retrieved August 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
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