Lew Riess

{{Short description|American sports coach and college athletics administrator}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Lew Riess

| image = LW Riess.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Riess cropped from the 1909 Hampden–Sydney football team photo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|10|19}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|1|4|1887|10|19}}

| death_place = Antwerp, Belgium

| alma_mater = Swarthmore College

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1908–1909

| coach_team2 = Hampden–Sydney

| coach_years3 = 1911

| coach_team3 = VPI

| coach_years4 = 1912—1917

| coach_team4 = Randolph–Macon

| coach_sport5 = Basketball

| coach_years6 = 1908–1912

| coach_team6 = Hampden–Sydney

| coach_sport7 = Baseball

| coach_years8 = 1912

| coach_team8 = VPI

| admin_years1 = 1910

| admin_team1 = VPI

| admin_years2 = c. 1915

| admin_team2 = Randolph–Macon

| overall_record = 33–39–4 (football)
3–6 (basketball)
9–9 (baseball)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships = Football
2 EVIAA (1908, 1912)

| awards =

| coaching_records =

}}

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.

Riess left Randolph–Macon in December 1917 to become the athletic director of a United States Army aviation camp in Jacksonville, Florida.{{cite news |author= |title=Lew Riess Will Coach Soldiers In Athletics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84455009/the-times-dispatch/ |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |location=Richmond, Virginia |date=December 16, 1917 |page=27 |access-date=August 31, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} 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.{{cite news |author= |title=Lew Riess' Death In ETO Revealed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84454774/the-honolulu-advertiser/ |newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |date=January 12, 1946 |page=2 |access-date=August 31, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

Head coaching record

=Football=

{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Hampden–Sydney Tigers

| conf = Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| startyear = 1908

| endyear = 1909

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 1908

| name = Hampden–Sydney

| overall = 5–4

| conference = 2–1

| confstanding = T–1st

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1909

| name = Hampden–Sydney

| overall = 3–4

| conference = 1–2

| confstanding = T–3rd

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Hampden–Sydney

| overall = 8–8

| confrecord = 3–3

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = VPI

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1911

| endyear = single

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1911

| name = VPI

| overall = 6–1–2

| conference =

| confstanding =

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = VPI

| overall = 6–1–2

| confrecord =

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets

| conf = Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| startyear = 1912

| endyear = 1917

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 1912

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 5–2

| conference = 3–0

| confstanding = 1st

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1913

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 4–4

| conference = 1–2

| confstanding = 3rd

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1914

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 5–5

| conference = 3–3

| confstanding = T–2nd

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1915

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 4–5–1

| conference = 3–2–1

| confstanding = T–2nd

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1916

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 1–7–1

| conference = 1–4–1

| confstanding = T–3rd

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1917

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 0–7

| conference = 0–6

| confstanding = 4th

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Randolph–Macon

| overall = 19–30–2

| confrecord = 11–17–2

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 33–39–4

| bowls = no

| poll = no

| polltype =

}}

References

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