| Irving Pray | |
| Birth Date: | 25 December 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Natick, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1911 |
| Coach Team2: | Natick HS (MA) |
| Coach Years3: | 1913–1914 |
| Coach Team3: | Norwich |
| Coach Years4: | 1915 |
| Coach Team4: | Salem HS (MA) |
| Coach Years5: | 1916 |
| Coach Team5: | LSU |
| Coach Years6: | 1919 |
| Coach Team6: | LSU |
| Coach Years7: | 1922 |
| Coach Team7: | LSU |
| Coach Sport8: | Baseball |
| Coach Years9: | 1912 |
| Coach Team9: | Natick HS (MA) |
| Overall Record: | 11–20 (college football) |
Irving Rudolph Pray (December 25, 1886 – August 27, 1948) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont from 1913 to 1914 and Louisiana State University (LSU) for part of the 1916 season and for full seasons in 1919 and 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 11–20.[1]
Pray was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He was born in Natick, Massachusetts and died in Alexandria, Louisiana.[3] [4]
Pray was the head football coach at Natick High School, in hometown in 1911. In 1915, he appointed head football coach at Salem High School in Salem, Massachusetts, succeeding Harold McDevitt.[5]