Leo DeTray

Leo DeTray
Biographical details
Born(1888-11-20)November 20, 1888
near Newark, Ohio, U.S.
DiedOctober 9, 1967(1967-10-09) (aged 83)
San Pierre, Indiana, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1904–1907Chicago
Position(s)Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1908Chicago (assistant)
1909–1910Wittenberg
1911Chicago (assistant)
1912Ole Miss
1915–1916Knox (IL)
Basketball
1915–1917Knox (IL)
Head coaching record
Overall10–7–2 (football)
10–10 (basketball)

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 at 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

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Wittenberg Tigers (Ohio Athletic Conference) (1910)
1910 Wittenberg 0–2[n 1] 0–1[n 1] [n 1]
Wittenberg: 0–2 0–1
Ole Miss Rebels (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1912)
1912 Ole Miss 5–3 2–2 11th
Ole Miss: 5–3 2–2
Knox Old Siwash (Independent) (1915–1916)
1915 Knox 1–1
1916 Knox 4–1–2
Knox: 5–2–2
Total: 10–7–2

Notes

  1. ^ a b c DeTray was fired after the first two games of the 1910 season. John B. Longwell replaced DeTray for the remainder of the season. Wittenberg finished the year 2–7 overall and 0–5 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, placing 11th.

References

  1. ^ "Will have a heavy team: Leo DeTray will captain a promising bunch of husky Maroons next season". The Pittsburgh Press. December 1, 1906. Retrieved August 31, 2011 – via Google News.
  2. ^ "1909 Wittenberg vs Otterbein Football Program". Otterbein University. 1909. Retrieved June 25, 2023.
  3. ^ "DeTray "Fired"". The Dayton Herald. Dayton, Ohio. October 6, 1910. p. 6. Retrieved May 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ 2010 Ole Miss Football Guide. Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Athletics Media Relations Office. 2010. p. 169. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  5. ^ "Ex-Maroon Star, De Tray, Dead at 78". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 9, 1967. p. 52. Retrieved October 22, 2018 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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