Leo DeTray explained

Leo DeTray
Birth Date:20 November 1888
Birth Place:near Newark, Ohio, U.S.
Death Place:San Pierre, Indiana, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1904–1907
Player Team2:Chicago
Player Positions:Halfback
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1908
Coach Team2:Chicago (assistant)
Coach Years3:1909–1910
Coach Team3:Wittenberg
Coach Years4:1911
Coach Team4:Chicago (assistant)
Coach Years5:1912
Coach Team5:Ole Miss
Coach Years6:1915–1916
Coach Team6:Knox (IL)
Coach Sport7:Basketball
Coach Years8:1915–1917
Coach Team8:Knox (IL)
Overall Record:10–7–2 (football)
10–10 (basketball)
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Leo Carter DeTray (November 20, 1888 – October 9, 1967) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football the Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio in 1910, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1912 and at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois from 1915 to 1916, compiling a career college football coaching record of 10–7–2. DeTray was also the head basketball coach at Knox from 1915 to 1917, tallying a mark of 10–10.

DeTray was a letterman at the University of Chicago competing as a halfback during his tenure with the Maroons between 1904 and 1907.[1]

DeTray coached Wittenberg during the 1909 season.[2] He began the 1910 season as the head football coach at Wittenberg, but was fired after losing his first two games and replaced by John B. Longwell.[3] He served as the head football coach at the Ole Miss in 1912, where he compiled a record of 5–3 during his lone season.[4]

DeTray later worked as a purchasing agent for an oil company based in Texas. He died on October 9, 1967, at the Little Company of Mary nursing home in San Pierre, Indiana.[5]

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. News: Will have a heavy team: Leo DeTray will captain a promising bunch of husky Maroons next season . . December 1, 1906 . August 31, 2011 . .
  2. Web site: 1909 Wittenberg vs Otterbein Football Program. Otterbein University. 1909. June 25, 2023.
  3. News: . DeTray "Fired" . . . October 6, 1910 . 6 . May 17, 2020 . .
  4. Book: 2010 Ole Miss Football Guide . 2010 . University of Mississippi Athletics Media Relations Office . Oxford, Mississippi . 169 . August 31, 2011.
  5. News: . Ex-Maroon Star, De Tray, Dead at 78 . . . October 9, 1967 . 52 . October 22, 2018 . .