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American sports coach and college athletics administrator

Lew Riess
Biographical details
Riess cropped from the 1909 Hampden–Sydney football team photo
Born	(1887-10-19)October 19, 1887 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	January 4, 1946(1946-01-04) (aged 58) Antwerp, Belgium
Alma mater	Swarthmore College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1908–1909	Hampden–Sydney
1911	VPI
1912—1917	Randolph–Macon
Basketball
1908–1912	Hampden–Sydney
Baseball
1912	VPI

Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1910	VPI
c. 1915	Randolph–Macon

Head coaching record
Overall	33–39–4 (football) 3–6 (basketball) 9–9 (baseball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 2 EVIAA (1908, 1912)

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. 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.

Head coaching record

Football


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Hampden–Sydney Tigers (Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1908–1909)
1908	Hampden–Sydney	5–4	2–1	T–1st
1909	Hampden–Sydney	3–4	1–2	T–3rd
Hampden–Sydney:		8–8	3–3
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	5–2	3–0	1st
1913	Randolph–Macon	4–4	1–2	3rd
1914	Randolph–Macon	5–5	3–3	T–2nd
1915	Randolph–Macon	4–5–1	3–2–1	T–2nd
1916	Randolph–Macon	1–7–1	1–4–1	T–3rd
1917	Randolph–Macon	0–7	0–6	4th
Randolph–Macon:		19–30–2	11–17–2
Total:		33–39–4
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth