Ted Jeffries

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Ted Jefferies
Jeffries pictured in Yoncopin 1929, Centenary yearbook
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	(1908-11-08)November 8, 1908 Jacksonville, Texas
Died	January 2, 1985(1985-01-02) (aged 76) Nacogdoches, Texas
Alma mater	Centenary College of Louisiana (1929)
Playing career
1925–28	Centenary
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1933-1943 1944-1946 1947-1955	Wichita Falls HS Lamar JC Stephen F. Austin
Head coaching record
Overall	41–40–3 (at SFA) 83–33–8 (at Wichita Falls HS)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Theodore Lemuel "Ted" Jefferies was an American football coach. Jeffries as an alumnus of the Centenary College of Louisiana, which he graduated from in 1929, as president of the student body and as "candidate for a B.S. degree.^[1]^[2] 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 and Texas A&M University coach R.C. Slocum. Slocum played for Coach Jeffries at Stark High School in Orange, Texas. Mr. Ted, as he was called, came out of retirement to coach in Orange. In Slocum's senior season, 1962, Jeffries took Orange to the state semi-finals.

References

Cashion, Ty (1998). Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches. Austin: Texas State Historical Association. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-87611-168-1.

v t e Lamar Cardinals head football coaches

R.M. "Monk" Hodgkiss (1940-1941) John E. Gray (Unknown) Ted Jeffries (1944–1946) Stan Lambert (1951–1952) James B. Higgins (1953–1962) Vernon Glass (1963–1975) Bob Frederick (1976–1978) Larry Kennan (1979–1981) Ken Stephens (1982–1985) Ray Alborn (1986–1989) No team (1990–2009) Ray Woodard (2010– )

Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks head football coaches

Bob Shelton (1923–1928)
Gene White (1929–1936)
Red Willis (1937–1940)
M. A. Baumgarten (1941)
No team (1942–1945)
Bill Pierce (1946)
Ted Jeffries (1947–1955)
Harold J. Fischer (1956–1958)
Red Conkright (1959–1961)
Shorty Hughes (1962–1970)
John Levra (1971–1974)
Dick Munzinger (1975)
Charles Simmons (1976–1981)
Jim Hess (1982–1988)
Lynn Graves (1989–1991)
John Pearce (1992–1998)
Mike Santiago (1999–2004)
Robert McFarland (2005–2006)
J. C. Harper (2007–2013)
Clint Conque (2014– )

Persondata
Name	Jeffries, Ted
Alternative names
Short description	American football coach
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