Ted Jeffries

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Ted Jeffries
Sport	Football
Career highlights
Overall	41–40–3 (at SFA) 83–33–8 (at Wichita Falls HS)
Coaching stats
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Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1933-1943 1944-1946 1947-1955	Wichita Falls HS Lamar JC Stephen F. Austin

Theodore L. “Ted” Jeffries was an American football coach. He served as head coach at Wichita Falls High School from 1933-43, taking the school to its first state championship in 1941. Jeffries later coached at Lamar University, at a time when the school was still a junior college. In 1947, he became head coach at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Among his former players was later Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints coach Bum Phillips.

[edit] References

• Cashion, Ty (1998). Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 148-149. ISBN 0876111681. 

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